Re: [tlug] Re: [OT] Re: Sorry to Hijack a thread but whats wrongwith LILO

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

And Thus Spake Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com> (on Thu, 27 Feb 2003
09:35:26 +0000):

> I don't know much about the kernel. Would someone mind explaining 
> (briefly) why something like zlib would be included in the kernel?

While booting:

  initrd = diskimage.gz

The kernel has to decompress the file before using it as a RAMDisk image.

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