On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis(a)ausil.us> wrote:
even loading a 20mb initramfs from a sdcard on a slow
arm box doesnt take that long, and id personally much rather be able to
change hardware or yank the drive and put it into a different box
without worrying about making sure i have the right initramfs bits in
place. at least to me the costs outweigh the benefits. the grub timeout
on my laptop/desktops is longer than the time it takes to load the
initramfs.
This actually suggests a different way to achieve the same result:
Teach grub to preload the kernel and initrd while waiting for the
timeout. That gives us _even better_ speedup, and doesn't sacrifice
the generic usability of the initrd.
Mirek