Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:17:32 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit |
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Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:12:00AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > >>b) add a new boot option telling the kernel the name of some file in >>initrd or similar from which to load additional options. > > a file in initrd isn't a good choice; as the initrd is generally a fix > image > > the point is some bootloaders might want to pass quite a bit of state > to the kernel at times (i actually have this for a mip32 target where > i construct a table and pass a pointer to that in, a tad icky but for > lack of options)
initrd is a fixed image, but initramfs can be synthesized.
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