Quoting Charles Steinkuehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[...]
> I'm currently working on porting the initrd_archive patch to 2.4.
>
> I want to expand the work I've done to get a CD booting LRP system.
> With
> the kernel bootstrapping modules from the initial ramdisk (which I
> already
> have working), LRP can boot off ANY device supported by linux by simply
> re-creating root.lrp (a simple tgz archive)...no kernel re-compiles
> required.
Now _that_ is cool! I want this for all my machines, LRP or not. I don't know
why all distributions aren't doing this already.
Doesn't RH do this already to some degree? I'm not kernel guru, but I'm
assuming that the patch is so that the kernel can load a lrp as the initrd. I'd
be interested to know what the rational behind a using a kernel patch vs using
a non-lrp initrd format is. Wouldn't it be better to avoid patching the kernel
and use whatever initrd support the kernel already has?
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