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Is'n't GRUB supposed to play that role? Why a full kernel?
by slim 9y ago
Is'n't GRUB supposed to play that role? Why a full kernel?
- bwindels 9y agoI think grub would usually be called after the boot firmware (like UEFI, or coreboot, or a traditional BIOS) has already initialized the hardware. Some of these systems can also directly load your operating system, and I would guess the one of the few thing missing from the boot firmware would be the filesystem support, and not much more