Booting OS on PowerPC

[Milton Miller]

On Dec 12, 2005, at 5:17 AM, René Rebe wrote:
>
> I prefer exteran initrd's since they are easier to regenerate
> e.g. on u/dev update and so on. I rather would not like to see
> that support be removed - I hope other distributors agree ,-)
>

External initrd? or externally loaded initramfs?

I personally find the modularity of the seperate cpio pieces to be a 
big win; it means I don't have to keep rebulding an image, I can just 
replace the piece that changed.

The only downside to initramfs vs initrd I have observed is that you 
don't have a nice "unmount the fs and everything disappears" cleanup.

[ There are a few gotchas --- symlinks are there once established, 
files can ony be ovwritten and extended not replaced, but for clean 
packages this is not an issue ]

milton