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Am Montag, den 02.11.2009, 19:53 +0100 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> Colin Watson, le Mon 02 Nov 2009 18:50:43 +0000, a =C3=A9crit :
> > 'multiboot ${kernel} root=3Ddevice:${GRUB_DEVICE#/dev/}' would be simpl=
er
> > and quicker.
>=20
> And will not work on some systems.
>=20
> Samuel

Why ones?
I just looked in POSIX.1-2008 and it defines it.
Both bash and dash supports it.
Note that 10_hurd only gets installed if the host kernel is HURD.
Is there any HURD based distribution avaible besides Debian?


--=20
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer