[ILUG] harddisk swap

[P at draigBrady.com]

Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 P at draigBrady.com wrote:
> 
>>The fact is that for grub the MBR is disk agnostic.
> 
> Is it? AIUI, the grub MBR has the location on disk of the stage-1.5
> fs loader hard coded into it (just as the lilo second stage
> (chain.b?) in the bootblock had the location of the kernel image hard
> coded into it).

stage1.5 is in the sector following the MBR.
The one on disk is just a copy used at install time.

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Genesis of (weird) unix names

awk
   This pattern scanning and text processing language was named
   after its authors: Al Aho, Peter Weinberger, Brian Kernighan.
grep
   "Global Regular Expression Print"
   g/re/p is the ed command to print all lines matching a
   certain pattern (where "re" is a "regular expression").
rc (as in ".bashrc" ...)
   "rc" derives from "runcom", from the MIT CTSS system,ca. 1965.
   There was a facility that would  execute a bunch of commands
   stored in a file; it was called "runcom" for "run commands",
   and the file began to be called "a runcom"
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