SUSE vs. Debian (lindows)

[Alma J Wetzker]

Joel Hammer wrote:
>  
> 
>>I've never used resierfs, but I'd be very surprised if you couldn't 
>>compile reiserfs support into your kernel.   In fact I'm certain that 
>>you can.  At any rate, this has nothing to do with grub (or LILO).
> 
> 
> My reading of the SUSE manual gave me the distinct
> impression that grub uses the disc operating system to find
> files during the boot, before the kernel is loaded and
> running, whereas lilo uses a map based on disc geometry
> independent of the disc operating system. So, building
> reiserfs into the kernel sounds like it would work for
> lilo but not for grub. It sounds like grub has to have an
> initrd to have the reiserfs module available to it.
> 
I am just playing with gentoo.  The setup allows lilo or grub.  The 
documentation is pretty clear that initrd is optional for both loaders.  My 
hardware changes too often to deal with compiling everything in the kernel.  I 
have only compiled a kernel, successfully, on the initial install of gentoo, 
where it leads you by the hand.  I prefer something more flexible than 
compiling everything in.

     -- Alma