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Subject: bug#27007: [PATCH 1/2] bootloader: Use menu-entry to define custom
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:22:37 +0200
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To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
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Hello,

Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:

>> For another future patch:  Hmm, should we make this optional?  I didn't =
have an initrd for many years.
>
> Well I tried to run GuixSD without initrd and it's not possible
> yet. Besides mounting root partition, it's also used to start the
> initial guile script (/run/current-system/boot).
>
> However, that's something I'd like to see :)

I think it=E2=80=99s hard to achieve in general, unless you build the relev=
ant
disk and file system drivers directly inside your kernel.  (The whole
point of the initrd is that you can keep a small kernel build and then
populate the initrd with the modules that are needed to mount the root
file system.)

(I=E2=80=99ll comment on the other issues separately!)

Ludo=E2=80=99.