2005/10/31, Jason Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Not to be a stickler, but it's the bootloader's problem to load the kernel
> into memory.  It's the kernel's problem to mount all the filesystems
> (including the initrd).  What this means is that the kernel also needs
> access to this filesystem code.  *If* the filesystems were compiled as
> modules, they'd have to be properly added to the initrd or else the system
> wouldn't be able to mount the root filesystem (to get the filesystem
> modules).

That's exactly what I meant.

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Jaroslaw Swierczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
www.archlinux.org | www.juvepoland.com

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