Re: Grokking miniroot.kmod etc.

[Adam Hamsik <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi,
On Nov,Monday 17 2008, at 1:54 AM, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> Now with the new world order, I see a number of bits that I can't  
> fit together:
> * we build a ramdisk image from e.g. src/distrib/i386/ramdisks as
>   before
> * There's src/sys/modules/miniroot which builds/installs e.g.
>   /stand/i386/4.99.72/modules/miniroot/miniroot.kmod, but it seems
>   unrelated to the ramdisk image. Is that correct? What's this
>   needed for, at all?
I think that this module is disk image it self, and you have to load it
to get root filesystem into the kernel.

Regards

Adam.