[gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2011-10-04, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2011-10-04, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2011-10-04, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Then any boot loader will need to call something to start it.
>>>>> Understand this: any Linux/Unix init system (systemd, SysV, Upstart,
>>>>> OpenRC) is simply a program... that the Linux kernel itself executes.
>>>>
>>>> I know. ??What I don't understand is the statement that grub2 calls (or
>>>> connects to) the init system.
>>>>
>>>>> That's the init= command line in the kernel.
>>>>>
>>>>> The bootloader calls an operating system. The init system (if at all)
>>>>> that the OS uses doesn't matter: so if you have an operating system,
>>>>> any bootloader should be able to boot it (bearing things like being
>>>>> able to understand the filesystem etc.)
>>>>
>>>> I know how bootloaders like LILO and grub-legacy work. ??What I don't
>>>> understand is the statement that grub2 is somehow aware of the booted
>>>> OS's init system.
>>>
>>> Oh. The configuration file of GRUB2 is autogenerated, and this means
>>> that the init=systemd has to be passed to the kernel line.
>>>
>>> In that sense, GRUB2 is "aware" of it.
>>
>> So to use grub2 you have to replace the normal "init" program that's
>> started by the kernle as PID#1 with something else?
>
> No.

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.

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