From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: "abranches@gmail.com" <abranches@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Grub-devel Digest, Vol 140, Issue 25
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:42:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5625B80F.6010008@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151019191040.GV21923@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
19.10.2015 22:10, Lennart Sorensen пишет:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 07:55:23PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>> GRUB reads grub.cfg either from the device BIOS had booted from (sans
>> serious BIOS bugs) or from device where UUID of /boot/grub is found. At
>> least if this GRUB was installed by grub-install. So order of devices in
>> BIOS is irrelevant.
>>
>> I asked him to explain how GRUB was installed on both devices but he never
>> replied ... besides IIRC original question of about EFI, not BIOS.
>
> EFI would make a difference. I would very much expect EFI to tell the
> bootloader which device it was started from.
>
Legacy BIOS is expected to do it as well.
> After all EFI isn't BIOS, so if someone says BIOS I am going to assume
> that is what they mean. :)
>
"BIOS" is often colloquially used for "firmware of my system".
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2015-10-19 9:05 ` Grub-devel Digest, Vol 140, Issue 25 Stuart Weaver
2015-10-19 16:39 ` Lennart Sorensen
2015-10-19 16:55 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-10-19 19:10 ` Lennart Sorensen
2015-10-20 3:42 ` Andrei Borzenkov [this message]
2015-10-20 13:47 ` Lennart Sorensen
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