Re: EZ-Drive weirdness

[Thierry Laronde]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:24:18PM +0100, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> On Mar 3, Alexis Paul Musgrave wrote:
> > 
> 
> > Does anyone know of a solution to this ?
> 
> Only the CVS version of grub has EZ-Drive support: It can access the
> hard disk without EZD loaded (but not beyond the 1024 cylinder
> boundary).  And that version of grub makes sure that it doesn't
> overwrite EZ when it is installed in MBR.
> 
> If you don't want to upgrade, you can install grub to a primary linux
> partition and activate that partition.  Or do it the hard way: install
> grub manually to the MBR using it's "install" command (difficult
> syntax) instead of setup.  Do not embed stage1_5.

FWIW, if one removes the *stage1_5 from the grub root partition (/boot/grub) 
there is no danger that GRUB embeds anything, and one can still use `setup'.

HTH
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