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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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