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Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie

From Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie
Date 2017-07-22 11:10 +0200
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Le 21/07/2017 à 08:34, Felix Miata a écrit :
> 
> 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).

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Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-19 11:40 +0200
  Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-19 20:10 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-19 21:50 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-20 09:00 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-20 23:40 +0200
          Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2017-07-20 23:40 +0200
            Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-21 10:20 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-19 22:30 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-20 23:50 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 07:30 +0200
  Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-19 20:40 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-20 23:50 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-21 04:20 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-07-21 10:40 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-22 11:00 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 07:20 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-21 08:40 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 13:00 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-22 11:10 +0200
          Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-22 15:00 +0200
            Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-22 19:40 +0200

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