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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file
Date: 23 Dec 2001 01:47:53 -0800
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Followup to:  <m1r8pmqotz.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
By author:    ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> GRUB allows some very neat things and it allows for it with the
> multiboot stuff.  And everyone seems to assume that because what you
> can do with GRUB is good, multiboot must be good as well.  But have
> you ever wondered why no other bootloader implementor was interested?
> 

Very well said!!  I really think that an initramfs protocol which
allows (but does not require!!) synthesis in the boot loader is the
way to go.

	-hpa
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