[Beowulf] cloning issue, hidden module dependency
Tony Travis
ajt at rri.sari.ac.uk
Tue Dec 9 04:07:02 PST 2008
Tim Cutts wrote:
> [...]
> It's very easy to build a custom kernel package
> with just what you want using the 'make-kpkg' command, and then you
> can strip out all the extraneous cruft if you want (I never bother -
> it's only modules that don't get loaded, and the only performance
> issue would be if you're PXE booting)
Hello, Tim.
That's right, I PXE boot openMosix without an initrd, with the drivers
needed to access the root filesystem built-in: Everything else is loaded
as a module from /lib.
Bye,
Tony.
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