Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file / Making Linux multiboot capable and grub loading kernel modules at boot time.

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 13:32:20 EST


Christian Koenig wrote:
>
> I agree, but the problem I have with Initrd is that you could only have
> 1 single initrd-image on your hard disk / loaded by the boot-loader.
>

Al and I have already discussed an improved approach. What we want is
rather than initrd an initramfs. I have specifically discussed the
initramfs protocol with Al so it can be combined from multiple sources.

        -hpa

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