Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Dick Streefland) | | Subject | Re: NFS-mounted, read-only /dev unusable in 2.6 | | Date | Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:13:03 -0000 |
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Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de> wrote: | Or is there any other way to get an initial console or | output any messages from an init script if one boots via nfsroot | and / (and thus, /dev) is only exported read-only from the | server?
You can boot with a ramdisk as root, initialized with an initrd, and then perform all NFS mounts manually in the init script. You can use pivot_root to switch to an NFS root to get rid of the ramdisk.
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