[COLUG] Re: Sharing a kernel

[Jess Balint]

Stephen J. Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 10:03, Josh Glover wrote:
> 
>>Quoth Stephen J. Smith:
>>why not use the same kernel on SuSE and Fedora? They are
>>both running on the same hardware, after all.
> 
> 
> Hey Josh.  How do you propose to share modules?  Mount the same partion
> on /lib/modules in each?

Interesting thought. Could would with ease. I guess I missed the start 
of this thread.

> Hrm, when does the kernel load modules?  Would it be after partitions
> listed in /etc/fstab have been mounted?

Yeah, the modules are probably loaded after filesystems have been 
mounted. The exception to this is init ramdisk, where the modules are 
stored in an image and mounted to bootstrap the mounting of the root 
partition. This is used if you using a fs or scsi or something and don't 
compile the module into the kernel. The kernel cannot mount the root 
partition until it has that module, so it loads the ramdisk, loads the 
module, then mounts the root partition.

~ Jess