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From: George Scott <George.Scott@cc.monash.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Build is complete
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> It sure does if you have no swap partition configured (or it's been
> rendered unusable) and you just need to get enough swap made
> available, using anything from your windows swap file to a file
> hastily constructued in /var somewhere for the purpose, to compile a
> rescue kernel.

To me that looks like an reason to have vn in the kernel on the fixit floppy
rather than in GENERIC.

George.