Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 1999 22:13:35 +0200 | | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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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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