Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Again Multiboot-Standard for Linux ? | Date | 21 Nov 2001 15:07:16 -0800 |
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Followup to: <166g3I-0ksq00C@fwd06.sul.t-online.com> By author: "ChristianK."@t-online.de (Christian Koenig) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Beside that, this it is a very nice feature for making an Installation Disk / > Distributions. > AFAIK the newest RedHat distribution use grub as standard Linux Loader, > if the Linux Kernel is able to load modules before mounting root, you can > make a Kernel without any block/bus driver compiled in. >
That's already what initrd does. What would make this interesting -- and why, at least in my opinion, Multiboot is the wrong solution -- is to make the bootloader smarter about what it loads. If the boot loader can *probe* for the device- and filesystem drivers it needs and thus dynamically compose the kernel in a dynamic manner, then it is suddenly a win; not sooner. Multiboot doesn't do that, although it might be possible to build on top of it to get there.
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