Re: initrd loading of boot-modules
Kristoffer.Rose@ENS-Lyon.FR writes:
> Dear Rene Mayrhofer,
>
> There is a related problem to the one you are solving: machines with a
> PC-Card floppy drive need to use the floppy MODULE thus cannot easily load
> the initrd filesystem. Is this something that you thought about? Would
> it, for example, be possible to include the initrd filesystem in the actual
> kernel image loaded by the BIOS? (I know that in the usual case this has
> inferior performance and reliability but it would really be nice if we
> could easily boot subnotebooks into Debian without ever needing DOS or any
> DOS-derived operating system. :)
The initrd filesystem would be loaded by lilo just as the kernel
is. If lilo works the initrd will work, but then you don´t need it
when you have your own kernel.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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