On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: | From my limited knowledge I see that everytime I create a new initrd |lilo needs to be updated but it doesnt seem to be so in the case of |grub. As far as I know the bootloader needs to know about the hard disk |if it wants to do anything constructive. That explains the need to |update lilo while creating a new initrd. What is happening with grub ?? |I just update /etc/grub.conf and grub somehow is aware of the new kernel |modules even though I havent told grub how to access the SCSI module |needed to read /etc/grub.conf ??
grub is not your average bootloader that just loads transfers control to the kernel.. (almost all other are dumb ones that need to be told the exact location of the kernel(physical address etc)) .. but grub is a very complicated program that actually understands file systems and can read it's configuration and locate the kernel to be booted at run time... you'll probably find a lot more info in their website. grub is also capable of booting of the network and stuff... 0.91 which is about ready to be launched.. has more features than 0.90. Kingsly _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
