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| From | Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: debian installation issue |
| Date | 2021-07-05 05:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <CxnCF-2bG-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <CsQYG-2Yz-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <Ctpa1-6UB-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <CvoCR-7xD-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <CvpIB-88k-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <Cxcee-3xo-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | less than infinite |
David Wright composed on 2021-07-04 10:29 (UTC-0500): > On Tue 29 Jun 2021 at 13:26:04 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> David Wright composed on 2021-06-29 11:16 (UTC-0500): ... >>> I don't understand the attraction of messing about with boot flags >>> in order to choose which primary partition to boot from. It seems >>> inelegant to write to the drive just for that. ... >> 2-The system was invented over 4 decades ago, before the PC compatible HD >> partitioning system was upgraded to allow for more than 4 partitions per HD. > Sorry, what system? My fallible memory may have mislead. I believe the 66 byte, 4 primary entry partition table "standard" MBR (system) was pioneered by the IBM PC/AT, which debuted with DOS 3.0, a good bit less than 4 decades ago. The reference book I had that spelled such things out never came back from a lend, and it's not proven worth my time to dig that bit of trivia out of the WWW. I did look on Wikipedia, but didn't spot a clear answer. The extended type adaptation with logical partitions arrived with DOS 3.2, which I skipped over to get 3.3 for 3.5" floppy and Bernoulli Box support. >> 3-I have yet to intentionally install Grub2 on an MBR system. I use mostly >> openSUSE's Grub Legacy, which supports ext4 (as long as 64bit is not enabled), on >> all MBR systems, > I'm not sure of the relevance of the Grub version, but I assume, from > your previous post, that Grub is installed in individual partitions, > not in the MBR/"on the disk". Grub Legacy maintenance doesn't require much effort or education. I can clone a partition, then run tune2fs to change UUID and LABEL, and setup Grub Legacy on the clone, from the same shell session in less than a minute, without need for any script, .conf file or partition mounting. It needs only a device.map and the Grub binary. Except when IBM BM is the primary bootloader on a system, I always have Grub Legacy on a primary partition. Historically, each / partition has it as well, but with the increasing absence of its availability, many of my installations have been going without having a bootloader installed by the host OS. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
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