On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 16:07:04 +0700 Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote:
> (As a side note, initramfs introduces not one, but *MANY* additional > breaking points: the tool used to generate the initramfs might be > buggy and/or feature-incomplete, the initramfs itself might encounter > an unrecoverable error, the pivot_root or chroot might snag upon some > not-so-edge cases, etc.) I completely agree. But if we take one more step backwards for a wider view we see something even more bizarre: I switch on a modern computer and it: - loads a feature rich OS (UEFI) from a fixed point in firmware which then - loads a feature rich OS (grub2) from a fixed point on a storage device which then - loads a feature rich OS (initrd) from a variable location on a storage device which then - loads the real OS (the thing I actually wanted). So, let's see now. I need 4 OSes to get one. Wow. If a design engineer pulled that stunt in almost any other field of technology, he'd be laughed out of Dodge in a heartbeat. Methinks someone (many someones) completely lost the plot a long time ago. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
