On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:43:28AM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> Initrd exists to allow a two-phase startup. My point is that why have a 2
> phase startup when you can have a 1 phase startup? Also, I'm not advocating
> ditching the initrd capability, but wouldn't bootloading modules be
> preferable for the majority of the systems currently using initrd out of
> necessity?
Cool, how is GRUB going to do hotplug issues? :)
The 2 stage approach allows us to run /sbin/hotplug during kernel boot
so that we can load the proper pci/usb/firewire/whatever drivers for
whatever is currently plugged into the machine at boot time.
thanks,
greg k-h
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