On 16.10.2012 12:28, Paulo Flabiano Smorigo/Brazil/IBM wrote: > Hi all! > > This patch implements the solution suggested by Gustavo Luiz Duarte > <[email protected]>: > > Adding more modules to be built-in to the grub core ELF is easy. It is a > parameter passed by grub2-install to grub2-mkimage. However, there is a > downside > on adding many modules to the core ELF: they are fully initialized in > the grub's > first stage. It means you could hit a bug on a module you don't need and > end up > with a non-bootable system. > > Another downside is that you wouldn't get updates for these built-in > modules, as > updating the grub2 package only updates the modules residing in /boot > and not > the grub core ELF in the PReP partition. > > A proper solution would be to add to grub the ability of having built-in > *inactive* modules which would be loaded and initialized only on demand > (i.e. > explicitly calling the insmod command). >
This is what memdisk does (i.a.). Why do you need anything else? > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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