Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932248AbXAQOK3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:10:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932250AbXAQOK3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:10:29 -0500 Received: from mail.syneticon.net ([213.239.212.131]:35891 "EHLO mail2.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932248AbXAQOK2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:10:28 -0500 Message-ID: <45AE2E25.50309@wpkg.org> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:09:41 +0100 From: Tomasz Chmielewski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061110 Mandriva/1.5.0.8-1mdv2007.1 (2007.1) Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel cmdline: root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 "fallback"? References: <45AE1D65.4010804@wpkg.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 932 Lines: 27 Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> The device is pretty small and has no keyboard, video card etc., so if it ever >> happens to break (can be a disk failure, but also operator who messed with >> startup scripts), it has to be opened (warranty!). >> >> These all unpleasant tasks could be avoided if it was possible to have a >> "fallback" device. For example, consider this hypothetical command line: >> >> root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 > > You should use initramfs to achieve that. All right. I see that initramfs is attached to the kernel itself. So it leaves me only a question: will I fit all tools into 300 kB (considering I'll use uClibc and busybox)? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org - 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/