RE: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file

Alexander Viro
2001-12-18T18:55:43Z

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Grover, Andrew wrote:

> 1) GRUB can already do this
> 2) Each bootloader doesn't need to link, the kernel includes the linker.
> (which after it does its job can be discarded and insmod used later on)
> 3) Seeing how ugly everyone seems to think initrd is, this seems like a
> worthwhile option to consider.

Sigh... You end up adding more code to kernel _and_ keeping initrd
code in there. And that's supposed to be an improvement?