Followup to: <m1r8pmqotz.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
By author: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> GRUB allows some very neat things and it allows for it with the
> multiboot stuff. And everyone seems to assume that because what you
> can do with GRUB is good, multiboot must be good as well. But have
> you ever wondered why no other bootloader implementor was interested?
>
Very well said!! I really think that an initramfs protocol which
allows (but does not require!!) synthesis in the boot loader is the
way to go.
-hpa
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