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the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

I can butture you that this is how Mandrake used to work, and Mandriva probably still works this way. Mandrake-Mandriva is a RedHat spin-off, so I buttumed that RH-CF would still use this approach as well.

Of course! That's whyinitrd'sare mainly formatted withext2in conjunction withext2support being compiled in-line with the kernel.

True, but I never contested this.

This is correct, yes. This is where thepivotrootcomes in.

Correct, yes. And it's typically formatted asext2,with the kernel havingext2support compiled-in, i.e. not as a module.

Well it is on Mandrake-Mandriva - see above. ;-)

That was an "if"-statement, provided only for theoretical clarification and not to be applied to the OP's installation directly. ;-)

Yup... Stock distro kernels are incredibly modular... :-

No, only those things which were delimited by a slash fore and aft. I use bold - asterisk delimited - for directorynames or paths.

*Anything* is bad if it's a typo... ;-) Bold requires two asterisks, but an asterisk is a globbing character, and so one could misinterpret that as well, especially when reading posts via Google Groups. ;-)

Again, when I spoke of aninitrd,I meant the initial ramdisk. When I spoke of *-initrd,* I meant the directory by that name. ;-)

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)