[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.05 released
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 PST 2005
Paolo Salvan wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Some lines of your change-log have captured my attention:
>
>
>> * The initrd= option now supports multiple filenames separated
>> by commas. This is mostly useful for initramfs, which can
>> be composed of multiple separate cpio or cpio.gz archives.
>> (Note: all files except the last one are zero-padded to a 4K
>> page boundary. This should not affect initramfs.)
>
>
> ...Is this feature something related with the feature I asked the 2004.10.27 in
> the "[syslinux] Passing one more file after initrd to the kernel..." mail?
>
> To save your time, this is the text of that mail I sent:
>
It could be used that way, but you would have to wrap the file in a cpio
archive.
The real way to put this together is under development.
Note, you can't concatenate initrd, only initramfs. Actually, given an
*uncompressed* initrd you could concatenate something after it, and
access it by opening the initrd device (/dev/ram0) itself, but I doubt
this is something you really want to do.
-hpa
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