On 11/28/2012 07:07 PM, Linda Walsh pecked at the keyboard and wrote: Linda, You have been ask several times to stop cross posting, so once again please stop.
Perhaps someone can explain to me why Windows doesn't need a pre-boot ramdisk in order to boot, while Linux does?
I know Windows doesn't have all the drivers for all the hardware linked in with it's kernel -- it's dynamically loaded out of it's "/bin (windows/sytem32)" dir.
So why does the linux kernel have this extra complication while windows does not? It's a bit embarrassing, I would think to see the wide range of HW supported by Windows **without** a special 'initrd' for drivers, while linux still doesn't support the range of HW that Windows does (some, but not ALL of that being due to short-sited HW providers who can't provide open specs or drivers).
So what is Windows doing 'right', that Linux is unable to do?
Maybe this is a kernel question -- maybe OpenSuse can't doing anything about this -- is this the case -- is this some kernel limitation?
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