Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261913AbUDIGsS (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Apr 2004 02:48:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261862AbUDIGsS (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Apr 2004 02:48:18 -0400 Received: from TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.214]:10707 "EHLO TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261913AbUDIGsN (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Apr 2004 02:48:13 -0400 To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" Cc: Chris Meadors , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: initramfs howto? References: <1081451826.238.23.camel@clubneon.priv.hereintown.net> <1081490209.28834.19.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop From: Miles Bader Date: 09 Apr 2004 15:48:05 +0900 In-Reply-To: <1081490209.28834.19.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1014 Lines: 20 "Bryan O'Sullivan" writes: > Ooh, I see that Olaf Hering has a recent variant of this patch which is > in -aa kernels. Andrew, can you consider dropping this into -mc or -mm, > please? It won't break normal operation, but will relieve the pain of > the not-yet-battle-scarred. It's less fugly than the earlier dev=0:0 > patch. Maybe. > > http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.6/2.6.5-rc3-aa1/initramfs-search-for-init If you use that, can you just keep using the initial initramfs as your root fs forever? That'd be swell for embedded systems... If so, it'd be nice if it checked for some other name than /init (e.g. /sbin/init) -- there's too much crap in / already. Thanks, -Miles -- I'd rather be consing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/