Re: Is anyone using the load_ramdisk= option in the kernel still?

[Alessandro Amici]

hpa,

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 05:48, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> So, in short:
>
> a) Does anyone use the load_ramdisk= option anymore, or is it
> legitimate to drop?

I'm pretty sure it is used by the Debian installer when bootstrapping from a 
floppy, but...

> b) If it is necessary to retain, does anyone care if this option would
> only support gzip format in the future, i.e. NOT support uncompressed
> filesystem images?  Since a gzip stream is self-terminating, this
> takes care of the problem of finding the end, but adds a sizable chunk
> of code to the kinit binary.

... the image is read from a raw device (/dev/fd0) and it is gzipped.

Booting the installer is probably the only large scale use case for the 
load_ramdisk parameter.

Cheers,
Alessandro
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