Re: Whys and hows of initrds

[Andreas Schwab]

<grfgguvf@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> FreeBSD (for example) has a bootloader that can load arbitrary modules
> in addition to the kernel.
> Is there anything preventing that to be done with Linux? Or is it just
> not powerful enough?

Implementing the module loading in the boot loader means duplicating the
functionality there, making the boot loader more complex and dependent on
the loaded kernel.

Andreas.

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