Peace, Love, and Unification in /boot
This topic is scheduled with "Petitboot - A kexec bootloader"
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A simple filesystem layout for command line parameters, kernel and initramfs images.
/boot might be managed by multiple distributions. These distributions fight over the boot loader configuration and don't know much about each other. In this session a proposal for a simple filesystem layout is presented, which can be used as the base for boot loaders without a special configuration file. This also obsoletes the need of regenerating a configuration file (grub-mkconfig) after dropping in files via package managers.
Topic Lead: Harald Hoyer
Harald joined the Linux community in 1996. His first kernel patch was the module ip_masq_quake in 1997, followed by boot support for md raid devices. He joined Red Hat in July of 1999, working on projects ranging from udev, network daemons and CD recording packages to creating configuration tools, extending smolt and writing python interfaces. Lately he created a cross distribution initramfs generator called dracut.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Harald Hoyer
- Definition:
- Superseded
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Grant Likely
