On 3/14/08, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 14 March 2008 07:15 pm, Agnello George wrote: > > > > > now suppose i have Two OS install -- debian Etch and the centos > > ...and grub is the default boot loader ( and grub file is located > > in /etc/grub.conf ..which has instruction / menu screen for booting > > the various OS ) but i don't seem to understand one thing - How is > > /etc/grub.conf made available to the boot loader even before a OS > > is selected ( explanation not very clear in the article ) > > Grub is almost an os with a shell and fs reader. once stage2 is loaded > it can recognise partitions and most filesystems. > > So let me guess when we install linux we have the follow in the partition table
in hd0 we have / /boot swap and hd1 we have / /boot swap and in hd0 we have the grub.conf file located in /boot/grub/grub.conf and in hd1 we have the grub.conf file located in /boot/grub/grub.conf so ultimately which conf file is read ?? -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.bible-study-india.blogspot.com -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
