From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964961AbVHaWZ1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:25:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964962AbVHaWZ1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:25:27 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:47247 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964961AbVHaWZ0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:25:26 -0400 Message-ID: <43162E3A.9070703@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:24:58 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesper Juhl CC: Chris Wedgwood , Alon Bar-Lev , Andrew Morton , SYSLINUX@zytor.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit References: <4315B668.6030603@gmail.com> <43162148.9040604@zytor.com> <20050831215757.GA10804@taniwha.stupidest.org> <431628D5.1040709@zytor.com> <20050831220717.GA14625@taniwha.stupidest.org> <9a874849050831151230d68d64@mail.gmail.com> <20050831221424.GA14806@taniwha.stupidest.org> <9a8748490508311518320c6aba@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9a8748490508311518320c6aba@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jesper Juhl wrote: > > Well, it wouldn't have to be initrd specifically. Generally what's > needed is *some* way to tell the kernel "please read more options from > location ". The interresting bit is what 's supposed to be. > This is what initramfs (as opposed to initrd) does quite well. -hpa