Proposals

Harald Hoyer

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Biography

Harald Hoyer 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.

Proposals for this user

* Dracut as a general purpose Bootloader

A proposal for an EFI like boot mechanism with a dracut initramfs and the linux kernel using kexec to boot other linux kernels.
Early Boot and Init Systems 05/19/2011
Harald Hoyer