FAI kernels versus regular Debian kernels

[Tim Cutts]

On 3 Jul 2007, at 4:25 pm, Torsten Schlabach wrote:

> Hi!
>
> What are the major differences between the FAI kernel and the  
> corresponding "plain" Debian kernel?

As far as I can tell, just that they don't use an initrd.  They  
contain all the drivers required to get the network up and start NFS- 
root, compiled in statically, and then everything else is modules in  
the NFS root filesystem.

Tim


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