Re: "GRUB Loading kernel..." message

2008-07-06 Thread Isaac Dupree
Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:24:56PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: I thought I remembered somewhere a discussion how the message "GRUB Loading kernel" is confusing, because it doesn't say what kernel it's loading, and grub loads lots of kernels I think this is not accurate. G

Re: "GRUB Loading kernel..." message

2008-07-06 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 08:33:03PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:35:15PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 19:24 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > > > > > . Although, looking at the files, boot/i386/pc/boot.S outputs "GRUB " > > > and boot/i386/pc/diskboo

Re: "GRUB Loading kernel..." message

2008-07-06 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:24:56PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > I thought I remembered somewhere a discussion how the message > "GRUB Loading kernel" > is confusing, because it doesn't say what kernel it's loading, and grub > loads lots of kernels I think this is not accurate. GRUB loads payload

Re: "GRUB Loading kernel..." message

2008-07-06 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:35:15PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 19:24 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > > > . Although, looking at the files, boot/i386/pc/boot.S outputs "GRUB " > > and boot/i386/pc/diskboot.S outputs "Loading kernel", so the parts > > actually mean different t

Re: "GRUB Loading kernel..." message

2008-07-05 Thread Isaac Dupree
Pavel Roskin wrote: On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 19:24 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: . Although, looking at the files, boot/i386/pc/boot.S outputs "GRUB " and boot/i386/pc/diskboot.S outputs "Loading kernel", so the parts actually mean different things: maybe it's important that it prints "GRUB " firs

Re: "GRUB Loading kernel..." message

2008-07-05 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 19:24 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > . Although, looking at the files, boot/i386/pc/boot.S outputs "GRUB " > and boot/i386/pc/diskboot.S outputs "Loading kernel", so the parts > actually mean different things: maybe it's important that it prints > "GRUB " first in case it n

"GRUB Loading kernel..." message

2008-07-05 Thread Isaac Dupree
I thought I remembered somewhere a discussion how the message "GRUB Loading kernel" is confusing, because it doesn't say what kernel it's loading, and grub loads lots of kernels (this message means that the "kernel" is a core part of GRUB, and the subject "GRUB" the message mentions is different