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Re: loadable module support for Etherboot?




>Someone asked if it was possible to use a kernel with "loadable module 
>support" turned on with Etherboot.  I told them that I had never built 
>one that way, but then I got to wondering. It seems like it might work.

Sure. On my X-terminal I use a kernel that is normal in all ways
except for the Root-NFS and BOOTP features, and the NIC driver is
compiled in. You can have /lib/modules/...  in the root NFS like normal
kernels. However if you want a module to be loaded *before* the root NFS
is mounted, then you need an initrd. Again this is standard practice. This
is one way to allow the NIC driver not to be compiled in.
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