Derek Smithies wrote:
Modules that should be part of the kernel are those that the kernel requires on startup. You see, at the point of startup, the kernel cannot do many things (such as read an ext3 disk)
Put another way (eg). Suppose the kernel module to read an ext3 disk is not part of the kernel, and is on a ext3 partition of the disk.
Badluck - the kernel cannot read ext3 disks, and load modules it needs.
Derek.
man initrd/mkinitrd will show you that this isn't entirely true.
Steve
