Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file | Date | 23 Dec 2001 01:47:53 -0800 |
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Followup to: <m1r8pmqotz.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> By author: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > GRUB allows some very neat things and it allows for it with the > multiboot stuff. And everyone seems to assume that because what you > can do with GRUB is good, multiboot must be good as well. But have > you ever wondered why no other bootloader implementor was interested? >
Very well said!! I really think that an initramfs protocol which allows (but does not require!!) synthesis in the boot loader is the way to go.
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