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Bean <bean123@126.com> writes:

[...]

>> That sounds much cleaner IMHO.  But IIRC (md) is already in use by the
>> RAID/LVM stuff ?
>> 
>
> Maybe (mem) ?

When would this be useful?

> Also, I don't know if GRUB2 kernel support initrd. You can start grub4dos
> like this:
>
> kernel /grub.exe
> initrd /aa.img
>
> Inside grub4dos, the initrd can be access using (rd). It would be nice if
> grub2 support this kind of usage.

You can use the loopback command to do this, if you want to access a
filesystem image.

loopback (loop) /foo/bar.img
ls -l (loop)/

--
Marco