Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-16 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Feb 2022 at 19:28:48 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 14 feb 22, 17:23:52, David Wright wrote: > > > On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > > > > > Not sure about the Debian installer (except that it does boot and > > > > run Linux, but not sure it ever switches to

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 14 feb 22, 17:23:52, David Wright wrote: > > On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > > > Not sure about the Debian installer (except that it does boot and > > > run Linux, but not sure it ever switches to another kernel > > > midway), but the Grub bootloader is kind of a mini-

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-15 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-15, David wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 10:24, David Wright wrote: > >> Effectively, Grub has two shells, Grub> and Grub rescue>, depending on >> whether the "normal" module has been loaded, and about the only thing >> you can sensibly do without normal is to find it and insmod it. >

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-14 Thread David
On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 10:24, David Wright wrote: > Effectively, Grub has two shells, Grub> and Grub rescue>, depending on > whether the "normal" module has been loaded, and about the only thing > you can sensibly do without normal is to find it and insmod it. > But most people will never see re

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-14 Thread David Wright
On Mon 14 Feb 2022 at 12:13:20 (-0500), Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On 2022-02-14 10:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I think I did mis-remember this, and the behavior I described > > > is more like the > > > behavior of the Debian installer (i.e.,

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-14 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-02-14 10:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I think I did mis-remember this, and the behavior I described is more like the behavior of the Debian installer (i.e., it boots an image (with a Linux kernel)  into RAM to use temporarily for the instal

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-14 10:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I think I did mis-remember this, and the behavior I described is more like the behavior of the Debian installer (i.e., it boots an image (with a Linux kernel) into RAM to use temporarily for the installation. I just wanted to try to correct this fo