Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Chris Lingard <> | Subject | Re: initramfs howto? | Date | Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:48:29 +0100 |
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On Friday 09 April 2004 6:21 pm, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 23:48, Miles Bader wrote:
> I'm agnostic. It's a two-line patch. I don't care if it's called > /spam/fandango/wubble, so long as the brave souls who are trying out > initramfs don't keep stumbling over the same problem again and again :-)
May I suggest
diff -Naur linux-2.6.5.old/init/main.c linux-2.6.5/init/main.c --- linux-2.6.5.old/init/main.c 2004-04-05 18:19:04.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.5/init/main.c 2004-04-18 15:37:56.000000000 +0100 @@ -604,7 +604,12 @@ smp_init(); do_basic_setup();
- prepare_namespace(); + /* + * check if there is an early userspace init, if yes + * let it do all the work + */ + if ( ! sys_access("/linuxrc", 0) == 0) + prepare_namespace();
/* * Ok, we have completed the initial bootup, and linuxrc already exists for initrd systems, and is coded in anyway.
I have tested this with both with both linuxrc -> bin/ash and with a script that brings up a full system. (I have made a boot CD that installs Linux-2.6.5 with udev)
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