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Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension
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Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:10:56 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:18:43AM +0800, Bean wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008 4:54 PM, Marco Gerards <address@hidden> wrote:
> > When is this feature useful? Can you give an example? More features
> > can mean more bugs, more maintainance work, etc. If the feature is
> > not worthwhile for more than one person, I am not sure if it should be
> > included. Perhaps a better explaination of the problem to solve,
> > instead of what the patch does might help here.
>
> the most important usage of external initrd is to overcome the size
> limit of core.img.
I understand that it overcomes a size limit, but, in which situations would
this be used? core.img is primarily targetted at being used with grub-setup
(where memdisk isn't needed), to be chainloaded from GRUB Legacy (where
memdisk isn't necessary either), or to build a rescue floppy (where this
feature, in principle, can't be used). Do you have other uses of core.img
in mind?
And in the case of rescue floppies, if we find a way to overcome the size
limit via loading memdisk image separately, I don't think using Linux boot
semantics is the best way to do it. Linux excels at a lot of things, but its
boot mechanism is full of legacy cruft. I don't think it's the best option
to take as a reference to implement GRUB.
--
Robert Millan
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- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Robert Millan, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Bean, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Robert Millan, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Bean, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Robert Millan, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Robert Millan, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Bean, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Robert Millan, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension,
Robert Millan <=
Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/23