Well guys, I have 3 harddisc drives with SuSE 8.2 on hda5 (boot), hda6 (swap) and hda7 (root) installed and I have hda1 (WinME) and Win2000 (hda2). Then I have SuSE 9.1 on hdc5 (boot), hdc6 (swap) and hdc7 (root) and I have hda1 (WinME, another one, which I can't boot right now, but shouldn't be a problem as soon as I correctly set up the grub menu.lst) Finally there is SuSE 9.2 on hdh5 (boot), hdh6 (swap) and hdh7 (root) and a Win Partition (not bootable) But how is it started? Well I choose it at the grub bootloader menu and then it is coded in initrd or the configuration of it (I think). I guess that's it. Yours Martin Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Thursday 23 December 2004 5:19 pm, Greg Freemyer wrote:
"Where was the kernel/initrd read from during bootup?"
I don't think that can be determined.
Equally unknown would be:
"Which disks MBR was used during boot?"
"Which disk/partition was grub loaded from?"
Anything related to Stage 1, 1.5, 2 of grub.
I have 2 HDs and boot differently depending on which one is active. if HDA is active, I boot from Grub and get the options of Windows XP and SUSE9.2, even though SUSE is on /dev/hdb10. if HDB is active I get the Xandros boot loader, also Grub I think ? and it gives me the option of XP, SUSE and Xandros ( which boots from hdb1). I really don't understand it all!