Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-07-22 11:03 (UTC+0200):
> Felix Miata composed:
>> To be clear, in MBR systems I only ever install DOS or OS/2 on a primary
>> partition. All other OS go on logicals. Except for one ancient PC that has only
>> WinXP on it (which I did not install), at least one primary is always EXT2 with
>> Grub Legacy and little else, unless the disk is a pure data-only disk, in which
>> case its MBR sector is empty but for the partition table.
> If this disk is bootable by BIOS, then its MBR must contain a boot
> program, at least the DOS/Windows standard MBR program or compatible
> (such as the ones installed by install-mbr or lilo -M).
By definition, a data-only disk is not bootable. On my data-only disks I use a
sector editor if necessary to fill the first 446 bytes of its first sector with
nulls.
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