From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Katz Subject: RE: RFC/Patch: Support for other bootloaders Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:56:38 -0500 Message-ID: <1111596999.25887.2.camel@bree.local.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Ian Pratt Cc: Michal Ostrowski , Tim Deegan , Keir Fraser , xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 15:52 +0000, Ian Pratt wrote: > [*] would it possible to do something whereby the vmlinuz and initrd > image were simply cat'ed together? This might swing the balance the > other way from a userbility POV, not sure. If you're using an initramfs instead of an initrd, you can just cat the initramfs to the end of the kernel image. It's still ugly from a user's perspective, but since this isn't the default (the default case is you're booting with grub and you can take advantage of multiboot), it's probably not too bad. Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Microsoft Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2005 Attend MEDC 2005 May 9-12 in Vegas. Learn more about the latest Windows Embedded(r) & Windows Mobile(tm) platforms, applications & content. Register by 3/29 & save $300 http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6883&alloc_id=15149&op=click