Ubuntu first time

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 02:44:26PM -0800, William Park wrote:
> Well, I dare anyone to setup 15 partitions, and install a distro into each partition.  You just have to make sure Slackware is first, and openSUSE last.
> 
> Since this thread is about Ubuntu, I see it loading kernel modules in GRUB config.  Why?  What's wrong with initrd?  Pretty soon, you're going to see Emacs at the sector 0.

GRUB 2 is modular.  You see it loading grub modules in grub config.
This is normal and a good thing.  Nothing to do with kernel modules.

Now you could use multiboot support and load kernel modules I suppose
but I have never seen anyone do that.  Maybe Ubuntu decided to try that,
although that would surprise me.

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