Messages in this thread | | | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | Subject | Re: udev: what's up with old /dev ? | Date | Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:02:25 +0200 |
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On Oct 11, 2004, at 12:29, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Monday 11 of October 2004 11:14, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: >> On Oct 11, 2004, at 01:15, Hacksaw wrote: >>>> The very first thing init does is open /dev/console, and if it >>>> doesn't >>>> exist the entire boot hangs. >>> >>> This raises a question: Would it be a useful thing to make a modified >>> init >>> that could run udev before it does anything else? >> >> FC3t2 boots from an "initrd" image that, among other things, mounts a >> tmpfs over "/dev" and creates "console", "null", "pts" and then >> proceeds to load "init". > ... and it ignores root= kernel cmdline option. rootfs is hardcoded in > initrd > which is very ugly.
I haven't seen any hardcoded root filesystem reference in the INITRD image. Instead, I see "/dev/root" which is supposed to be exactly the root filesystem passed to the kernel via "root=".
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