Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit

H. Peter Anvin
2005-08-31T22:17:59Z

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.

-hpa