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From(Dick Streefland)
SubjectRe: NFS-mounted, read-only /dev unusable in 2.6
DateTue, 03 Aug 2004 14:13:03 -0000
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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Dick Streefland //// Altium BV
dick.streefland@altium.nl (@ @) http://www.altium.com
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