On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 21:15 +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
Am I chasing my tail ? I used to boot sparcs like this by passing an
IP
and nfsroot as the kernel arguments, yet every example I find for fedora
uses an initrd image with modules in it. Isn't it simpler to waste a few
extra kbytes and have a kernel with most common ethernet and NFS
compiled in.
I notice a diskless kernel and initrd image in fedora, but its seems to
be just an installer, the kernel boots on most things - but remove the
initrd and it doesn't stand alone ?
The upstream kernel is moving towards removing these sorts of things.
It's far easier to do them in userspace and just have everything
modular.
And with initramfs[1] if you, for some strange reason, can only load one
file, you can cat the initramfs to the end of your kernel image. I'd
recommend using a boot loader like pxelinux, though, to make things
simpler.
Jeremy
[1] Note that mkinitrd now creates an initramfs image if you're on a 2.6
kernel, the name notwithstanding