SUSE vs. Debian (lindows)

Ken Moffat kmoffat
Mon May 17 11:58:21 PDT 2004


Joel Hammer wrote:

>the SUSE mkinitrd script adds reiserfs
>to the initrd.  Why would it do this if grub natively
>supports reiserfs? So, there is a lot going on that is
>not well explained.
>
>  
>
>

from the man page:

USAGE
       The main motivation for implementing initrd was to allow for 
modular kernel configuration at system installation.

hmmm....  maybe that explains something?

-- 
Ken





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