[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: [Xen-devel] RFC/Patch: Support for other bootloaders
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 11:56 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 15:52 +0000, Ian Pratt wrote: > > [*] would it possible to do something whereby the vmlinuz and initrd > > image were simply cat'ed together? This might swing the balance the > > other way from a userbility POV, not sure. > > If you're using an initramfs instead of an initrd, you can just cat the > initramfs to the end of the kernel image. > How is this supported? I've been looking through linux to find code that would look for this, but haven't found it. Can you provide a pointer? > It's still ugly from a user's perspective, but since this isn't the > default (the default case is you're booting with grub and you can take > advantage of multiboot), it's probably not too bad. > If the above is true, I'd argue add that we should not bother with trying to package a Linux kernel and a ramdisk. This is something that would appear to be a Linux and Linux tools issue. Hence, there is only a requirement to load Xen and one image which is dom0 (with any ramdisk embedded in that image). This could simplify a fair bit of code. -- Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Attachment:
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