Grub being ignored or not loading with FC4 & XP

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Grub being ignored or not loading with FC4 & XP

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08-04-2005, 03:29 AM	#16
Zelator Member Registered: Jul 2005 Location: Melbourne Australia Distribution: Manjaro Posts: 78 Rep:	Vik, my impression is that if GRUB is not loaded into the MBR then the BIOS cannot find it and will not run it. Read the GRUB manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html and see if you agree. Note that the contents of /boot/grub are only part of the story, some other arcane gizmo has to sit where the BIOS can find it before it picks up XP or whatever, and that gizmo, I assume, then fires up the stuff in /boot/grub.

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