Grub
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 02:33:38 UTC 2007
Tim wrote:
>>> I was under the impression that the BIOS only needed to be able to
>>> access the first two or three GRUB stage files, and the third one was
>>> used for accessing drives from that point (e.g. loading the kernel),
>>> bypassing the BIOS.
>
> Les Mikesell:
>> If that were true, you'd have to configure grub with device drivers to
>> match your hardware.
>
> Or it'd have to handle it, automatically, without user configuration.
> But, yes, it doesn't sound practical.
Or possible, given that grub can boot multiple operating systems and
doesn't know anything about their device driver interfaces - and the
linux interfaces change all the time.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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