Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:57:26 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 05:39:20AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > hpa@transmeta.com said: > > > Let the boot loader provide the boot-necessary modules in the form of > > > an initrd. > > > > Or in an easier form. Take a look at the handling of 'boot modules' in the > > 'Multiboot Standard' at http://www.uruk.org/grub/boot-proposal.html > > > > Actually, I don't see much difference between this and an initrd on > romfs.
The difference is that the Multiboot Standard requires that the bootloader handles this whereas the kernel handles initrd & romfs.
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