[Slackbuilds-users] grub_legacy worth keeping in the repo?

[Marco Moock]

Am 17.07.26 um 08:09 schrieb B. Watson:
> 
> I'm not a GRUB user, never have been (I still use lilo and legacy
> boot, or elilo if that's impossible), so I have to ask...
> 
> Is there a reason for grub_legacy (grub-0.97) to exist? Is there
> hardware that is supported by the old version of grub that can't be
> booted with the newer grub that ships with Slackware? Does anyone on
> this mailing list own such hardware, and would miss grub_legacy if it
> were gone?

I am not ware of any hardware that can be booted with GRUB 0.97, but not 
GRUB2.
Both are BIOS bootloaders. GRUB 2 support booting from MBR and GPT (with 
bios_boot partition).

A BIOS just boots the first sector of a disk - rest is task of the 
bootloader.

-- 
Gruß
Marco

Junk-Mail bitte an trashcan at stinkedores.dorfdsl.de
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