Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file

Greg KH
2001-12-18T18:54:04Z

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:43:28AM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> Initrd exists to allow a two-phase startup. My point is that why have a 2
> phase startup when you can have a 1 phase startup? Also, I'm not advocating
> ditching the initrd capability, but wouldn't bootloading modules be
> preferable for the majority of the systems currently using initrd out of
> necessity?

Cool, how is GRUB going to do hotplug issues? :)

The 2 stage approach allows us to run /sbin/hotplug during kernel boot
so that we can load the proper pci/usb/firewire/whatever drivers for
whatever is currently plugged into the machine at boot time.

thanks,

greg k-h