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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 20:41:39 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 11:45, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Anything in the boot path needs to be static, by definition,
> > or you face the Catch-22 of needing to load the driver in
> > order to be able to load the driver.
> 
> Uhh, not really.
> If your BIOS supports it (which it must for you to boot off it) then the
> loader can load any extra modules you need.
> 
> If your argument was true then the kernel would need to load itself :)

Think "CDROM install".

-- Terry

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