Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Marc SCHAEFER <> | | Subject | Re: Announce: initrd-tftp 0.1 | | Date | 9 Jan 2000 09:12:40 +0100 |
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Khimenko Victor <khim@dell.sch57.msk.ru> wrote: > Do you really NEED to tftp an initrd - that's the question. As Cox's > written 10 times (or so) you can solve you problem with other tools.
Just my 0.2 cent:
- Etherboot supports loading kernels by TFTP, but also supports loading of ``tagged-images'', which are a kernel and a compressed initrd. Tested, works.
- Etherboot may not support all plateforms (I didn't check).
Of course, this means you need kernel + compressed initrd size in memory + decompressed size, and this could be a problem if you have little memory.
Recreating a new initrd is possible, independantly from the kernel image (you use a tool named mknbi to glue them into a tagged-image).
I am not sure this has any relevance to the discussion.
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