Grub

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Aug 19 05:28:25 UTC 2007


Tim:
>> 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.

-- 
[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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