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 1RBF4E-00016Z-Sr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:10:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 165E121C110; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC68B21C029 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:09:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxk30 with SMTP id 30so1393057yxk.40 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:09:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UcariqilMm/nOnAgNeLvmAJeu4Z8Fm5Vya25Ut1/f2A=; b=pYABs7FecgElIuP4d+QDMVQP63MN4KdAx5Z8/1OUlt2VT4dKKSqdUu+Tjug6+ZS/kk 3a0HKjEwCGG3mq7Ih0r87gcvCb158DqSwa1rB1yKM7u6a+KpVGmX1bP4RPdG1DK0QuIZ 2krZvmnEACftTfUdvXoe2H16HSZHCP+ZT7BjA= Received: by 10.236.187.35 with SMTP id x23mr10696443yhm.6.1317773364161; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-215-244.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.215.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v4sm18309080yhk.3.2011.10.04.17.09.21 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:09:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E8BA02E.3090409@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:09:18 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111002 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it? References: <4E8AD6C4.7070901@gmail.com> <15152608.IZfVaM36bk@pc> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 69afb79ec5780a4655cab99073b21113 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer = wrote: > >> Correct, the *kernel* executes it. >> >> Quoted from an earlier mail in this thread: >> >> "That it's not true. It connects to whatever init system do you have >> (OpenRC, SysV, systemd, Upstart)" >> >> The kernel executes the initsystem, the initsystem takes care of the r= est. >> Care to explain, why grub2 needs to connect to (or call) the initsyste= m? > It connects via the kernel via init=3D, as always. Maybe not the best > choice of words, but the important thing is that the statement about > GRUB2 having its "own init system and it's own set of init scripts" is > false. I noted the "connection" between the bootloader and the init > system (via the init=3D command line) to emphasize that GRUB2 has not > its own init system. Nor init scripts. > > Regards. I don't have that on mine. title Gentoo kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-3.0.4-1 root=3D/dev/sda3 So I guess my grub is ignorant. lol Dale :-) :-)