On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:23:58AM -0500, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> > Now that we have a 'non-module' object in /lib/modules, we could simply
> > copy System.map and the bzImage/vmlinux there and rename it to /kernel ...
> >
> > That certainly makes a lot of sense; I've alwyas thought it was a bit
> > odd that some stuff was in /lib/modules and Systemp.map and bzImage are
> > stored in /boot. My guess is this is because Linus doesn't use modules,
> > so he doesn't see this particular aesthetic fault. :-)
>
> The kernel image needs to be stored on a partition that can be reached by
> the boot loader, unlike modules.
And - what's the problem, you simply have /kernel as partitoon instead of /boot.
And sooner or later when we will (hopefully) get multiboot support in the
linux kernel the modules will be needed by the bootloader.
Christoph
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