Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:34:43 -0500 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: Differences between 2.2.x and 2.4.x initrd |
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:50:00AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote: > > > Well, the point being that 2.2.x worked implicitly, and 2.4.x doesn't. I > > don't want to have to tell people who have been using tilo forever and a > > day that they now have to add additional command line to get it to work > > with 2.4.x. > > You don't have to. Just setup linuxrc to echo the right stuff into > /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev
Yeah, which is listed under the "Obsolete" section in Documentation/initrd.txt. The assumption I'm making here is that if /linuxrc fails to execute, it falls back to /sbin/init on the currently mounted root filesystem. Assumptions are bad, but I don't see why it can't work like this. If there is a filesystem already mounted, it should be used.
Ben
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