[plug] cant boot system any longer

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Daniel J. Axtens wrote:
> 
>> I think you do need it built-in. Otherwise, the computer won't be able
>> to mount the drive to access the initrd image - if my understanding of
>> kernel boot processes is correct, that is.
> 
> It is not.  The initrd is loaded by GRUB using BIOS calls, the same way
> as the kernel image itself is.  This lets distributions ship identical
> kernels for use with SCSI/SATA/IDE systems.  During the installation
> process, an appropriate initrd is built containing the drivers required
> to access the root filesystem, and then the rest is loaded from there.
> 
> Cameron
> 
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That too =)