Difference between revisions of "Grub"
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| − | Grub is the [[bootloader]] most people will use with Funtoo. Grub is very powerful supporting multiple partition types, filesystems, and operating systems through a modular framework. Grub will generally be installed through the <code>[[grub-install]]</code> script. That script will translate the Linux device node such as <code>/dev/sda</code> into a Grub device such as <code>(hd1)</code>. This has to be done because Grub will only know about devices that your system's firmware knows about. | + | Grub is the [[bootloader]] most people will use with Funtoo. Grub is very powerful supporting multiple partition types, filesystems, and operating systems through a modular framework. Grub will generally be installed through the <code>[[grub-install]]</code> script. That script will translate the Linux device node such as <code>/dev/sda</code> into a Grub device such as <code>(hd1)</code>. This has to be done because Grub will only know about devices that your system's firmware knows about. It generates a core Grub image with enough support to read the [[The_Root_Filesystem#.2Fboot_:_Static_files_of_the_boot_loader|boot]] partition. It modifies the Grub [[boot image]] so that it can find the core image and installs the boot image to the master boot record. |
Revision as of 00:25, 15 November 2010
Grub is the bootloader most people will use with Funtoo. Grub is very powerful supporting multiple partition types, filesystems, and operating systems through a modular framework. Grub will generally be installed through the grub-install script. That script will translate the Linux device node such as /dev/sda into a Grub device such as (hd1). This has to be done because Grub will only know about devices that your system's firmware knows about. It generates a core Grub image with enough support to read the boot partition. It modifies the Grub boot image so that it can find the core image and installs the boot image to the master boot record.
