initrd/ramdisk-Status...
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Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] initrd/ramdisk-Status...
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 00:37:55 +0200
From: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Hi Matthew,
Am Tue, 24 Aug 1999 schrieben Sie:
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I programmed it in such a way, that the bootable image in
arch/parisc/boot/holds a directory-structure for up to 63 possible ramdisks, which can be selected during boot via initrd=<number> or initrd=<name>.
The reason for adding support for multiple ramdisks is, that distributions later can add easier support for multiple/different machines in one bootfile.Hang on, this doesn't make sense. There should be no difference between the binaries, the only difference should be the kernels.
Yes, maybe I could change it to select the kernel..... What do you think ? On the other side, there also could be different binaries for PA1.x / PA2.
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I believe the
plan is to put UFS-reading code into the bootloader in any case (mkp?) which makes all this a temporary hack; as it should be.
Yes of course is UFS-reading the most important part, but how would you do UFS-reading over Network or from a DAT on a new system without preinstalled fs or unformatted fs ?
Helge.
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