RE: [Xen-devel] RFC/Patch: Support for other bootloaders

[Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 11:56 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 15:52 +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > [*] would it possible to do something whereby the vmlinuz and initrd
> > image were simply cat'ed together? This might swing the balance the
> > other way from a userbility POV, not sure.
> 
> If you're using an initramfs instead of an initrd, you can just cat the
> initramfs to the end of the kernel image.
> 

How is this supported?  I've been looking through linux to find code
that would look for this, but haven't found it.  Can you provide a
pointer?

> It's still ugly from a user's perspective, but since this isn't the
> default (the default case is you're booting with grub and you can take
> advantage of multiboot), it's probably not too bad.
> 

If the above is true,  I'd argue add that we should not bother with
trying to package a Linux kernel and a ramdisk.   This is something that
would appear to be a Linux and Linux tools issue.   Hence, there is only
a requirement to load Xen and one image which is dom0 (with any ramdisk
embedded in that image).  This could simplify a fair bit of code.


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Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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