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chimerical_brio

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Registered: 2008-07-20

Posts: 38

Which partition for GRUB?

I'm using auto-prep for setting up my partitions, and I create four partitions on /dev/sda: boot, swap, root and home. And when it comes time to install GRUB, I'm asked where the MBR is located, and offered the choices:

/dev/sda
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda3
/dev/sda4

WHere should I install GRUB? Thanks

cwacker

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Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 6

Re: Which partition for GRUB?

/dev/sda should put it on the mbr of sda, if you choose one of the examples with the numerbs (/dev/sda4 for example) it will be put on the sda4 partition and that may not be in the "beginning" of the drive, which is great for chainloading but not great for other, more common, purposes, like using the grub in the MBR to boot from. I Believe most common BIOSes want the bootstrap to be located on the "early" sections of the drive..

Dont take my word for the absolute truth though, this part of the install is explained in the beginners guide and the beginners install guide at the wiki.

edit> just some corrections..

Last edited by cwacker (2008-07-24 21:38:46)

chimerical_brio

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Registered: 2008-07-20

Posts: 38

Re: Which partition for GRUB?

Well, there's really nothing about what partition to use in the beginner's guide, but I installed it on /dev/sda, and it seems to be working. Thanks

heleos

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From: Maine, USA

Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 678

Re: Which partition for GRUB?

I always install mine to /sda (which has linux and windows on it) and I've never had a problem