On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2011-10-04, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s <can...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On 2011-10-04, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s <can...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>>>> That it's not true. It connects to whatever init system do you have >>>>>> (OpenRC, SysV, systemd, Upstart), >>>>> >>>>> I'm curious: what if you don't have one? ??I use grub-legacy to boot >>>>> stuff other than Unix. >>>> >>>> When I said "it connects", I mean "calls". The same way it calls >>>> whatever thingy Window uses. >>> >>> Right. ??And what about non-windows, non-Unix systems that don't have >>> any thingy to call? >> >> Then you don't have an operating system. > > Yes, I do.
Then any boot loader will need to call something to start it. Understand this: any Linux/Unix init system (systemd, SysV, Upstart, OpenRC) is simply a program... that the Linux kernel itself executes. That's the init= command line in the kernel. The bootloader calls an operating system. The init system (if at all) that the OS uses doesn't matter: so if you have an operating system, any bootloader should be able to boot it (bearing things like being able to understand the filesystem etc.) Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
