On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:12:51PM -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:22 AM, KESHAV P.R. <skodab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, the patch definitely works. It is part of Fedora's GRUB2 src-rpm > > package. But I changed the 10_linux.in file manually before compiling grub2. > > The strange thing is that even without any initrd line in the menuentry, the > > Fedora system boots successfully (my guess is that the Fedora's kernel > > searches for its compatible initramfs file without relying on grub or > > grub2). > > Linux initramfs is inside the kernel binary, not a separate file, and > so needs no extra support from the bootloader.
Linux *can* behave this way if you want it to, but most distributions do not set it up like that. This mode is usually only used by self-built kernels, and it's not universal even there since sometimes it's more convenient to be able to change the initramfs separately. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
