Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:26:34 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | RE: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file |
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> 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.
Learn to read. You don't _have_ to have initrd. At all. There's nothing to stop your loader from putting whatever cpio archive it likes - it doesn't involve anything other than slapping files you want together putting their owner/group/size/timestamps/mode/name before each of them. Anything that puts a bunch of modules in core will have to do equivalent job.
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