Messages in this thread | | | From | "Adam J. Richter" <> | Date | Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:19:13 -0800 | Subject | Re: Tentative patch: modularized disk partition systems in 2.3.99-pre2-5 |
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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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