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Subject: Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module.
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 07:15, Michael Mueller wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> Sorry, but I must join Russel here. I have atleast one machine which has
> a bootloader able to load exactly one file only. There is currently no
> way to load an initrd. It would need to implement the whole (BOOTP+)TFTP
> stuff again, just to get the initrd. So I was quite happy linux 2.4
> still knows about mounting a NFS root filesystem without user-space
> help.

Just glue the initrd to the kernel. This is not rocket science

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