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    SubjectRe: Tentative patch: modularized disk partition systems in 2.3.99-pre2-5
    Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> writes, in response to my
    message about moving partition parsing entirely into userland
    with just a system call to define partitions to the kernel:

    >But then how do you locate the root partition on the disk if the
    >kernel does not know how to read the partition table on that disk?

    The initial ramdisk is not a partitioned device, and it is
    already read into memory by lilo. The program for reading the
    partition table from /dev/hda would be on the initial ramdisk.
    The same is true for root on floppy.

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