On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 14:46:03 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: >> The *installer* portion of grub2 is aware of which pid#0 is running > > when it auto-creates the bootloader's configuration. That pid#0 is > > passed on to the kernel by the bootloader. > > OK. I that I understand. It seems a bit redundant to me: I've been > running Linux since the 0.99 days and never had to pass init= to a > kernel. But, I guess it won't hurt anything...
That's because you are using the standard, hard-coded, init. GRUB2 is trying to cope with all use cases, so it checks to see whether a different system is in use and configures the boot menu accordingly. -- Neil Bothwick GOTO: (n.) an efficient and general way of controlling a program, much despised by academics and others whose brains have been ruined by overexposure to Pascal.
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