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On 4/20/06, jarry@×××.net <jarry@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Well, I'm not using GRUB, but I think that the way GRUB |
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> reads disks has very little (if anything) common with linux. |
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> Not only it gives different names to disk-partitions, grub |
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> is like "mini-OS", which uses its own routines. It can be |
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> that GRUB sees disks/partitions differently, than linux... |
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> lilo has been designed as "LInux LOader". If lilo can see some |
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> disks/partitions, linux kernel can find them too (and vice-versa). |
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> But this is sometimes not true for GRUB... |
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No. both grub and lilo work through the system BIOS. Neither can |
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'see' things not provided through the system BIOS. |
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But grub and lilo do work very differently in their 'normal' |
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configurations. Lilo records absolute disk blocks where the kernel is |
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located, and loads the kernel directly from those blocks. This is why |
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you have to re-run lilo every time you update your kernel. |
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Grub however has some knowledge of filesystems, so can actually read |
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the filesystem that contains the kernel to determine what blocks to |
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load. So it is possible (not so much today, but in years past) to use |
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a filesystem that linux understands but grub does not. |
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-Richard |
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