Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)
Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 22:13:35 +0200
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:49:25PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com> said:
> > hpa@transmeta.com said:
> > > Let the boot loader provide the boot-necessary modules in the form of
> > > an initrd.
>
> > Or in an easier form. Take a look at the handling of 'boot modules' in the
> > 'Multiboot Standard' at http://www.uruk.org/grub/boot-proposal.html
>
> grub is all but dead, AFAIKS. Or is a version after 0.5 hiding somewhere?
>
> Any tips to get it to work? The documentation is singularly opaque (or
> maybe I'm just being dumb ;)
Um, it's far from dead here. 0.05 works nicely. Try installing it off
floppy rather than off hard disc, that's the only tip I have.
--
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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