On 09/11/12 at 09:58am, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Curtis Shimamoto < > sugar.and.scruffy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The link I provided clearly shows you how to install to the mbr of a > > partition. > > > > As Bjoern Franke pointed out previously in this thread, there is no such > thing as "the MBR of a partition". MBRs are only at the beginning of > devices, not partitions. The guide you linked explains how to install grub > to "the boot sector of a partition". > > It may seem like nit-picking, but I think that precision in this kind of > issues is important, because a confused user could very well wipe out all > his data... > > -- > Rodrigo Okay, I can agree with that. In any case, it seemed as though th OP did not bother to really read through the page I linked to. If he/she had, he would have seen the incredibly not recommended option to install to the boot sector of the partition. Unfortunately, in this case, one is made to use the --force flag to make it work w/o grub complaining. -- Curtis Shimamoto sugar.and.scruffy@xxxxxxxxx
