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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:10:34
Message-Id: 4E8BA02E.3090409@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it? by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
2 > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer<grimlog@×××.de> wrote:
3 >
4 >> Correct, the *kernel* executes it.
5 >>
6 >> Quoted from an earlier mail in this thread:
7 >>
8 >> "That it's not true. It connects to whatever init system do you have
9 >> (OpenRC, SysV, systemd, Upstart)"
10 >>
11 >> The kernel executes the initsystem, the initsystem takes care of the rest.
12 >> Care to explain, why grub2 needs to connect to (or call) the initsystem?
13 > It connects via the kernel via init=, as always. Maybe not the best
14 > choice of words, but the important thing is that the statement about
15 > GRUB2 having its "own init system and it's own set of init scripts" is
16 > false. I noted the "connection" between the bootloader and the init
17 > system (via the init= command line) to emphasize that GRUB2 has not
18 > its own init system. Nor init scripts.
19 >
20 > Regards.
21
22 I don't have that on mine.
23
24 title Gentoo
25 kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-3.0.4-1 root=/dev/sda3
26
27 So I guess my grub is ignorant. lol
28
29 Dale
30
31 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it? "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>