OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
>
> From: Dave Cinege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [PATCH] Multiple initrd files.
> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:19:14 -0500
>
> > What do you think about this? To implement this the 'right way' (allowing
> > continuous loading accross multiple entries) would require recoding
> > load_initrd() entirly.
>
> No, that's quite easy. See the patch attached to this message. It's a
> just "three minutes" hack.
Actually I'm not sure about your patch. : >
I'm loading files right inline (effectively cat'ing them together in memory),
so its not possible to calculate the total image size until
they are all loaded. From what I could tell this creates an offset problem, as
the first file could be 10K and the next file could be 2MB. (And a 10K file is
placed differently then a 2.01MB one, no?) This is why I said I thought it had
to be rewritten since I didn't think any of the lower part of initrd_load()
could take place until grub_read() read it all.(???)
IE my test bed for this
initrd.img == 1.1MB
dd if=initrd.img bs=1 count=10000 >initrd.1
dd if=initrd.img bs=1 skip=10000 >initrd.2
initrd /initrd.1,/initrd.2
This works fine with my patch. Would your's be ok?
Dave
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