Re: Grub internals?

[Gregg Levine]

On 7/11/07, Kaleem Khan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks, Gregg. By info files you mean what I get when I do 'info grub', right?
>
> Regards,
> Kaleem.
>
> On 7/11/07, Gregg Levine <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 7/10/07, Kaleem Khan <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I've been trying to understand the inner workings of grub. I don't see
> > > any documentation which explains in details how the first stage
> > > downloads second stage's first sector, and then how this downloaded
> > > first sector downloads the rest of the second stage, and how exactly
> > > the second stage binary is created. Looking into the code and makefile
> > > seems to be the only option which may take a long time. Do you have
> > > any other suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > Kaleem.
> > >
> > >
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> > Hello!
> > What about reading the code? And certainly the info files that are
> > produced are a good way to discover most of how it works.
> > --
> > Gregg C Levine address@hidden
> > "This signature was once found posting rude
> >  messages in English in the Moscow subway."

Hello!
Yes, that is exactly it. It was one way how I discovered what
happened. And why its default kernel available by telling the code to
make it during the configure steps to do so.

--
Gregg C Levine address@hidden
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."