Re: initrd support?

[<olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net>]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:10:48PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net, le Wed 23 Dec 2009 17:18:14 +0100, a écrit :

> Or maybe just introduce a "rd0" device?
> 
> grub.cfg could look like
> 
> module /hurd/ext2fs.static ext2fs --multibootblabla
> module /lib/ld.so.1 exec /hurd/exec etc.
> module /boot/initrd rd0
> 
> Here gnumach notices rd0 and instead of starting a task, creates an rd0
> device.  Then we can just pass root=device:rd0 to the kernel.

Implementing ramdisk in the kernel? Doesn't sound very hurdish to me :-)

-antrik-