[COLUG] Re: Sharing a kernel

[Josh Glover]

Quoth Stephen J. Smith (Mon 2004-06-28 11:35:35PM -0400):

> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 10:03, Josh Glover wrote:
>
> > 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?
> 
> Hrm, when does the kernel load modules?  Would it be after partitions
> listed in /etc/fstab have been mounted?

Nope, it must load at least the filesystem modules *before* /etc/fstab
is considered.

The best way to handle this would be simply to mount the same partition
on /usr/src/linux in each and run a 'make modules_install' on each.

-- 
Josh Glover

Gentoo Developer (http://dev.gentoo.org/~jmglov/)
Tokyo Linux Users Group Listmaster (http://www.tlug.jp/)

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