Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2001 10:49:19 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file |
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:43:28AM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote: > Initrd exists to allow a two-phase startup. My point is that why have a 2 > phase startup when you can have a 1 phase startup? Also, I'm not advocating > ditching the initrd capability, but wouldn't bootloading modules be > preferable for the majority of the systems currently using initrd out of > necessity?
Cool, how is GRUB going to do hotplug issues? :)
The 2 stage approach allows us to run /sbin/hotplug during kernel boot so that we can load the proper pci/usb/firewire/whatever drivers for whatever is currently plugged into the machine at boot time.
thanks,
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