Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 05:39:20 -0700

David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> hpa@transmeta.com said:
> > Let the boot loader provide the boot-necessary modules in the form of
> > an initrd.
>
> Or in an easier form. Take a look at the handling of 'boot modules' in the
> 'Multiboot Standard' at http://www.uruk.org/grub/boot-proposal.html
>

Actually, I don't see much difference between this and an initrd on
romfs.

-hpa

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