How does linux read menu.1st

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Subject: How does linux read menu.1st
From: Timothy Wu <2huggie@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:11:35 +0800
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Hi,

A system had trouble booting which used to boot fine. It was having trouble mounting root disk and changing hda1 to sda1 in the grub config menu.1st fixed the problem. My question is this, since menu.1st itself resides on hard disk. How does the system manage to read this before hard disk is mounted?

Timothy

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