> PS. and it seems grub2 is an altogether more sophisticated beast as > well, which embeds the rough equivalent of stage 1.5 in some space after > the mbr on dos partition table HD's, or a special grub partition (not > the /boot partition, but a partition just for Grub) in GUID hard drives. Nitpicking... Grub2 does not have a 1.5, only 1 (boot.img) and 2 (core.img). :)