Dual Boot

[Nathan Bahn]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Nathan Bahn <nathan.bahn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Nathan Bahn <nathan.bahn at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Wait a minute!  I thought dual-booting created partitions that cannot
> be
> >>> breached!
> >>
> >> core.img is embedded into the post-MBR gap and not a partition.
> >
> > I am sorry, but I know what neither a core.img nor a post-MBR gap is.
> May I
> > trouble you for a link to some references?
>
> Heard of Google?
>
> Anyway:
>
> Core.img is grub2's equivalent of grub1's stage 1.5.
>
> If you run "fdisk -lu /dev/sda", you'll see that /dev/sda1 starts at
> 63 (for a default Ubuntu install; Lubuntu and Fedora start at 2048).
> Sector 0 is the MBR and sectors 1-62 are the post-MBR gap.
>



T.H.--
Thanks for the info.
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