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Re: "GRUB Loading kernel..." message


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: "GRUB Loading kernel..." message
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:37:24 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:24:56PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> I thought I remembered somewhere a discussion how the message
> "GRUB Loading kernel"
> is confusing, because it doesn't say what kernel it's loading, and grub 
> loads lots of kernels

I think this is not accurate.  GRUB loads payloads.  It doesn't care if they're
a standalone OS like invaders.elf or the kernel part of an OS that resides on
disk/network/whatever.

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Robert Millan

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