On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:06:46PM -0800, Andrew Agno wrote: > Both ext2 and ext3 are modules and everything works fine. > Ah! Hold on one second. I installed 2.4.17-386 on the new > installations, and it seems that on 2.4.17-386, only ext3 is a > module, not ext2, whereas with 2.4.17-686, both ext2 and ext3 are > modules. Anybody know why this is?
initrd ? - man 4 initrd.
Allows the kernel to boot up with a ramdisk as a (temporary) root
file system. Then the kernel can load the necessary modules from the
ramdisk (e.g. ide, ext2, ext3, reiserfs etc) to mount the real root file
system.
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