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In PCs, when you turn on the machine, the system reads BIOS to locate the MBR which is the first 512 byte of hard disk. Then, the MBR says the location of GRUB and the
GRUB program starts to load kernel. Finally, the kernel loads modules and init scripts to boot system up. IN ARM system, because we do not have any BIOS or Hard disk, the
process is different and it dose not have any GRUB. Instead, it has a Ramdisk or an image from file system that kernel loads that and boots from that. Now, we are going to make a package or RPM in case that we have several kernels installed in ARM and it should figure out to select the current kernel that it wants to load because it does not have any GRUB like PCs. So, this is the first approach for this project. Because we want to use initrd and modules which has a lot of features, we should build a kernel for a specific device which is impossible. Instead, we go to or load the generic kernel and the generic kernel can grab the module to know how to have access to hardware, but in order to do that, we should use a software such as Dracut to make the right module for us.
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