Eight boot options

On Tuesday 25 July 2006 23:55, PaulFXH stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

The redundant and obviously defective Windows boot options most likely correspond to non-bootable Windows parbreastions you had on your hard disk when you installed the system, or hard disks which you have now removed from the system but that were present during the install and had Windows parbreastions on them either way. These parbreastions can be data parbreastions, but typically they are recorded into the bootloader configuration as well when the installer finds them, as the installer isn't equipped to determine whether those parbreastions are bootable or not - technically, they could be, even if Windows requires (active) primary parbreastions to boot from.

As for the other entries, there are two kernels installed - 2.6.12-10 obviously being newer than 2.6.12-9. The difference between them is most likely a patchset with bugfixes or additional functionality backported from a more recent vanilla kernel tree.

The fact that there are two entries for each is just to help you boot the system to a recovery mode if normal boot fails for some reason. This is typically done by pbutting "failsafe" as a boot parameter to the kernel. They typically boot up the system to a single-user maintenance mode with only the root filesystem mounted, and mounted as read-only.

Hope this was useful... ;-)

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)