Re: Initrd unzipped ?

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Thierry Laronde <address@hidden>
Subject: Initrd unzipped ?
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:36:04 +0200

> It seems that when one uses an initrd with Linux, the initrd is unzipped.
> If I'm right, since Linux is able to unzip the initrd too, and since it
> first moves the initrd to a ramdisk, this is not practical (one waste
> memory).

I'm not sure. The code is derived from Erich's version of GRUB "as
is", so there might be a reason for that (e.g. ancient Linux didn't
support gzip-loading? Erich?)

Anyway, at least 2.0.38 supports gzip-loading, so I think it would be
better to disable the automatic decompression behavior in GRUB. If
nobody objects to that, I'll do that.

Thanks,
Okuji