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From: Thufir <hawat.thufir@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] grub chainloader
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:03:06
Message-Id: bf6b6d5c0707171550sa74b587v3652ac2f00d3be8e@mail.gmail.com
1 I've read the GRUB documentation, but still don't understand why the
2 following worked:
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5 localhost ~ #
6 localhost ~ # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
7 default 0
8 timeout 30
9 splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
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11
12 title=Gentoo Linux
13 root (hd1,0)
14 kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0
15 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hdb3
16 initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5
17
18 title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3228.fc7)
19 root (hd0,1)
20 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
21 initrd /initrd-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7.img
22
23 localhost ~ #
24 localhost ~ # date
25 Tue Jul 17 22:48:12 UTC 2007
26 localhost ~ #
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30 I would've thought that the chainloader +1 statement would be required
31 -- that's my experience at least.
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35 -Thufir
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