On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:01:33AM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Jan 24, 2008 12:18 AM, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2008 4:54 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When is this feature useful? Can you give an example? More features > > > can mean more bugs, more maintainance work, etc. If the feature is > > > not worthwhile for more than one person, I am not sure if it should be > > > included. Perhaps a better explaination of the problem to solve, > > > instead of what the patch does might help here. > > > > the most important usage of external initrd is to overcome the size > > limit of core.img. > > this is the new patch, now no need to modify grub-mkimage, use cat > just as before.
Well.. even though I still don't see the motivation, I'm less concerned about this if it's just added to lnxboot.img. > +VARIABLE(grub_memdisk_image_addr) > + .long 0 I recall you said use of this variable could be avoided ? -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
