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From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: grub-install
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:28:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200507262128.14734.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42E63711.3030309@draigBrady.com>

On Tuesday 26 July 2005 15:13, P@draigBrady.com wrote:
> I was wondering about sectors 62 & 63 (counting from 0).
> On my laptop (that had windows wiped the minute I got it),
> I notice that there is a MSWIN4.1 boot record in sector 63
> (I think it actually flows over the next 2 sectors also).

It is just a trace of the Windows boot sector. Once you remove Windows, it is 
a garbage.

> Also sector 62 has the following? Is that BIOS suspend
> to disk info or something, or maybe something left
> over from the windos install?

I don't know. If you are afraid, you can try to fill that with zero (after 
making a backup) and see what happens.

Okuji



  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-26 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-24 18:44 grub-install Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-07-25  2:04 ` grub-install Hollis Blanchard
2005-07-25  9:11   ` grub-install Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-07-25 10:26     ` grub-install P
2005-07-25 13:12       ` grub-install P
2005-07-26 13:13         ` grub-install P
2005-07-26 19:28           ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2005-07-25 15:15       ` grub-install Hollis Blanchard
2005-07-25 16:35         ` grub-install Marco Gerards
2005-07-25 19:16           ` grub-install Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-07-26 18:41             ` grub-install Vincent Pelletier
2005-07-26 19:34               ` grub-install Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-07-26 19:56                 ` grub-install Vincent Pelletier
2005-07-25 12:15 ` grub-install Marco Gerards
2005-07-25 19:25   ` grub-install Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-07-25 13:06 ` grub-install Vincent Pelletier
2005-07-25 19:04   ` grub-install Yoshinori K. Okuji
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-27  5:06 grub-install E.R
2008-05-27 15:40 ` grub-install Pavel Roskin
2008-05-28  0:54 ` grub-install Gregg Levine
2008-05-28  6:00 grub-install E.R

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