RE: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file

[Grover, Andrew]

> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > Basically what Grub does is loads the kernel modules from disk
> > into memory, and 'tells' the kernel the memory location to load
> > them from, very similar to how an initrd file is loaded. The problem
> > is Linux, is not MBS compilant and doesn't know to look for and load
> > the modules. 
> 
> So tell me how you make an MBS compliant alpha kernel again?

1) Someone writes a MBS spec chapter for Alpha
2) Someone implements it.

Any volunteers? (Eric? ;-))

It's all about scratching an itch, right? Things don't become cross-platform
by themselves. Linux started out 386-only, after all.

Regards -- Andy