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> >>>If there is more than one module, how is the guest expected to sort out
> >>>which module is what?
> >In general I was expecting this would be done by position, or if that's
> >not enough an additional module (at either position 0 or n) should be
> >passed to contain that information.
> 
> Then we should specify it somehow --- e.g. that first module is always the
> ramdisk.

Keep in mind that with Linux you can actually append the initrd in the
vmlinuz file - so you only have "one" file. Hence the first module
could be optional.