> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> writes:
>
> > On 27 Nov 2001, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> >
> > > davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) writes:
> >
> > Actually the original poster used "magic" and I didn't quibble, but I
> > believe you're right. I just noted that it is better to check to see if
> > the filesystem is FAT before reporting the error message. Obviously this
> > can be done, since you don't get the message with FAT as a module, I just
> > haven't looked to see if the check is in the module or the kernel before
> > even loading the FAT module.
>
> Yes. You can't use the module before you mounted the root filesystem.
> This is a reason for not seeing an error message.
What? Of course you can! That's what initd files are for ;-)
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