From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RBTQZ-0006Fk-3w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:30:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 126DE21C0DE; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 15:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E01421C05D for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 15:29:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5AF3F804E2 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:29:29 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:29:24 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it? Message-ID: <20111005162924.4c7e1566@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <4E8AD6C4.7070901@gmail.com> <20111004110746.395635e0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs18 (GTK+ 2.24.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/rWtHkdhdLQOVqCGV5gttVEJ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 60147cc1c4e59f6fc7091ccd26a1fb35 --Sig_/rWtHkdhdLQOVqCGV5gttVEJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 14:46:03 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: >> The *installer* portion of grub2 is aware of which pid#0 is running > > when it auto-creates the bootloader's configuration. That pid#0 is > > passed on to the kernel by the bootloader. =20 >=20 > OK. I that I understand. It seems a bit redundant to me: I've been > running Linux since the 0.99 days and never had to pass init=3D to a > kernel. But, I guess it won't hurt anything... That's because you are using the standard, hard-coded, init. GRUB2 is trying to cope with all use cases, so it checks to see whether a different system is in use and configures the boot menu accordingly. --=20 Neil Bothwick GOTO: (n.) an efficient and general way of controlling a program, much despised by academics and others whose brains have been ruined by overexposure to Pascal. --Sig_/rWtHkdhdLQOVqCGV5gttVEJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6Md9gACgkQum4al0N1GQOabQCdEpzb62pYkOE0/MvI1DIf2+Bp oxAAn2N2ah7jp21Hyk2UeIy8kckTwm1A =1eQv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/rWtHkdhdLQOVqCGV5gttVEJ--