Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: root=LABEL= problem [Was: Re: Linux Issue] | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:41:48 +0000 |
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On Iau, 2006-02-02 at 09:19 +0100, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > it's 100% done in the initrd. > > Isn't this a matter of the bootloader ?
The boot loader knows very little and the BIOS may not even be able to drive some of the hardware to go looking for volume labels. The sequence used is that the initrd is the root file system and contains application code run very early on in order to find out where the 'real' root fs is by label. Having mounted that it can then pivot_root() itself into the final desired configuration.
All userspace, and all the initrd building is done by a tool called mkinitrd.
Alan
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