On 11 Sep 2000, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> >>>>> "O" == Oliver Stieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> O> how do I move etc to a different partition and let the kernel
> O> know where all the init stuff is?. as I want etc as reiserfs.
>
> are you loading reiserfs as a module? /etc/rc.d is needed long before
> the kernel has even begun to load modules, so if you have reiserfs as
> a module, the partition cannot be read until after that module is
> loaded. The same is true for any filesystem or partition type. To
> use it during boot, it must be compiled into the main kernel.
>
>
Moving /etc onto a separate partition is a very bad idea whatsoever. Where do
you think /sbin/init gets its config file from?
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