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From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
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Subject: Re: booting GRUB2 from GRUB Re: AFFS support
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On Thursday 29 September 2005 04:12 am, Brian Sammon wrote:
> With GRUB1, it could be loaded from another bootloader by installing it on
> the boot sector of a partition and chainloading it.  Is this not the case
> with GRUB 2?

For chain-loading, one must install a boot loader to somewhere. This is not 
always feasible. In fact, I have only one XFS partition, so all I can use for 
boot loaders is the MBR.

Okuji