Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jul 1999 14:20:18 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: PATCH to support dotted base directory names |
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On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 05:56:50AM -0400, Rick Hohensee wrote: > execve("/etc/init",argv_init,envp_init); > execve("/bin/init",argv_init,envp_init); > execve("/bin/sh",argv_init,envp_init); > - panic("No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel."); > + execve("/.sbi/init",argv_init,envp_init); > + execve("/.bi/bash",argv_init,envp_init); > + panic("No init or shell found. Try passing init=</path/to/command>" > + " to the kernel with your bootloader.");
I don't see why we need this in the kernel. Your distribution can (as you evidently know) pass `init=/.sbi/init' to the kernel, so why do we need this? Is there actually a good reason we have /etc/init and /bin/init in there still? Has any distribution in the last 5 years not put init in /sbin?
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