Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> writes, in response to my
message about moving partition parsing entirely into userland
with just a system call to define partitions to the kernel:
>But then how do you locate the root partition on the disk if the
>kernel does not know how to read the partition table on that disk?
The initial ramdisk is not a partitioned device, and it is
already read into memory by lilo. The program for reading the
partition table from /dev/hda would be on the initial ramdisk.
The same is true for root on floppy.
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