SUSE vs. Debian (lindows)

[Raymond Russell]

On 1/18/04 10:57 PM, "Joel Hammer" <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> 
> Well, I am just getting into debian, so it is confusing
> to me.  But, the documentation on linux things is
> confusing. Reading about grub in the SUSE manual (page 75
> of the administrator's guide 9.0 pro), it clearly states
> that grub contains code to support reiserfs as well as XFS,
> and others. Yet, 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.
> 
>

Grub supports Reiserfs but it loads the kernel.  If your kernel is modular
and you don't load the reiser module then your system wont be able to mount
you root file system..  The same thing would happen with Lilo.  If your
kernel has all of the needed support built-in then you don't need initrd.