Grub Loader

Wed Jan 19 06:54:09 UTC 2005

Thanks again, Gene.  No more html messages to fedor-list.

Gene Heskett wrote:

>On Wednesday 19 January 2005 00:43, David Curry wrote:
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>Please David, do not post to this list with html enabled.  It makes it 
>very difficult to pick the real message out of all that html blather.
>For security reasons, virtually no one on this list runs their email 
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>>Thank you, Gene.  I infer from your grub.conf listing that the
>>"default=11" specification in your grub.conf listing designates the
>>default kernel for booting and the "fallback=9" defines the kernel
>>for loading if the first one fails. 
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>Correct
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>>I also gather that 
>>#  in the first column signals a comment line that is not
>>acted upon by the grub loader and enables one to insert entries to
>>facilitate human processing.<br> <br>
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>Again correct
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>>I note that your grub.conf file lists kernels in descending order of
>>age (earlier kernels before later kernels).  My grub.conf file,
>>on the other hand, lists the kernels with the latest first and the
>>earliest last. 
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>Not really, the order is purely whatever I feel I can do away with 
>when I'm adding the next build.  I have no idea how many entries grub 
>can actually handle, so I've set a rather arbitrary self imposed 
>limit of 17 including the dos boot, which is actually a drdos 
>install, but it doesn't work very well so I usually boot that from a 
>floppy.  But now, with the bios able to do its own upgradeing, I'm 
>not even sure there is a good reason to keep a dos partition around!
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>>When initially opened, my grub.conf file 
>>specified default=1.  I changed that to read default=0. 
>>We will see what happens.<br> <br>
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>Yes, its numbered in a base 0 numbering system.
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