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| Feb 18 at 13:25 | comment | added | ychaouche | The bootloader that lives in the ROM's job is only to look for the MBR/GPT partition and load the "boot code" that it finds in there, usually grub's stage1 file. So I think we're talking about two bootloaders here: The one that lives in ROM and grub stage 1 which lives in the bootable disk's first sector with a size of exactly 512 bytes. At least for systems that use grub. | |
| Dec 12, 2019 at 10:24 | history | answered | suspectus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |