Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Subject | Re: Whys and hows of initrds | Date | Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:57:15 +0100 |
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<grfgguvf@gmail.com> writes:
> FreeBSD (for example) has a bootloader that can load arbitrary modules > in addition to the kernel. > Is there anything preventing that to be done with Linux? Or is it just > not powerful enough?
Implementing the module loading in the boot loader means duplicating the functionality there, making the boot loader more complex and dependent on the loaded kernel.
Andreas.
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