Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file | Date | 18 Dec 2001 12:35:31 -0800 |
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Followup to: <59885C5E3098D511AD690002A5072D3C42D804@orsmsx111.jf.intel.com> By author: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Implicit in the use of initrd is that you have to *make a ramdisk image*, > and then tell your bootloader to load it. If you have a bootloader that can > load multiple images (i.e. the modules themselves) you can skip the first > step. >
initramfs will do this just fine.
> Again, even the new scheme will still involve the creation of an initrd. I'm > saying, as a user, it would be easier for me to not do this, and just modify > a .conf file to have the driver loaded early-on.
See above.
> I'm not arguing that the new initrd won't be better than the old initrd > (because obviously you are right) I'm arguing that no matter how whizzy > initrd is, it's still an unnecessary step, and it's one that other OSs (e.g. > FreeBSD) omit in favor of the approach I'm advocating.
Doing things in multiple steps is often appropriate.
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