Am 05.10.2011 15:55, schrieb Grant Edwards:

> I give up.  I've absolutely no idea what grub2 has to do with the OS's
> init system, and none of what you've written makes any sense to me.

It has NOTHING to do with it, or not more or less then lilo or grub1 or
any other bootloader. But the automagic of grub2 at install/setup time
is able to see which init system is used in the linuxes it reach on the
system and configure the init= kernel option for you.
Thats all folks!

Greetings

Sebastian Beßler