Re: Installation
From: Michael Bacarella <mbac@nyct.net>
Subject: Re: Installation
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 11:24:48 -0400 (EDT)
> GRUB loads /boot/gnumach and pass execution onto it, along with
> information on where to find the servers.boot file. (which is why you
> have to tell GRUB these two things to boot the Hurd).
That is not correct. GRUB loads gnumach and serverboot, and tells
gnumach where the module serverboot is in the core. Then GNU Mach
initializes the internal information and the device drivers, and then
executes serverboot. The module serverboot analyses the configuration
file servers.boot, start the fs server specified in servers.boot and
...
Read the source code for serverboot and init, for more information.
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