Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:43:53 +0100 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file |
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:47:58AM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote: > > From: James A Sutherland [mailto:james@sutherland.net] > > > Had you actually looked at initrd-related code? I had and > > "bloody mess" > > > is the kindest description I've been able to come up with. > > Even after > > > cleanups and boy, were they painful... > > > > With a choice between that, or teaching lilo, grub etc how to > > link modules - > > and how to read NTFS and XFS, and losing the ability to boot > > from fat, minix > > etc floppies, tftp or nfs servers - almost any level of > > existing nastiness > > would be preferable to that sort of insane codebloat! > > 1) GRUB can already do this > 2) Each bootloader doesn't need to link, the kernel includes the linker. > (which after it does its job can be discarded and insmod used later on) > 3) Seeing how ugly everyone seems to think initrd is, this seems like a > worthwhile option to consider.
And GRUB is of course available for all platforms that Linux is available for? Noooo? I didn't think so...
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