[OLPC-devel] Re: GPL compliance for buildrom
Richard Smith
smithbone at gmail.com
Tue Aug 22 14:36:15 EDT 2006
> > a) Moving linuxbios.rom into the initrd image so that it's not necessary
> > to mount the boot media
>
> I know you don't mean that you put it into the ROM initrd - it wouldn't even
> come close to fitting. So we have to mount the boot media regardless.
He's refering to the initrd that the GRUB bootloader for the USB image
loads. So it can be really large.
I considered putting it in there to start with but I figured it would
be out of date pretty quickly and you would still have to mount
seperate media to flash in the latest.
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Richard A. Smith
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