Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
> even loading a 20mb initramfs from a sdcard on a slow
> arm box doesnt take that long, and id personally much rather be able to
> change hardware or yank the drive  and put it into a different box
> without worrying about making sure i have the right initramfs bits in
> place. at least to me the costs outweigh the benefits. the grub timeout
> on my laptop/desktops is longer than the time it takes to load the
> initramfs.

This actually suggests a different way to achieve the same result:
Teach grub to preload the kernel and initrd while waiting for the
timeout.  That gives us _even better_ speedup, and doesn't sacrifice
the generic usability of the initrd.
    Mirek