Messages in this thread | | | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Subject | Re: [klibc 30/31] Remove in-kernel resume-from-disk invocation code | Date | Thu, 6 Jul 2006 12:18:35 +1000 |
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Hi again.
(Excuse me replying to myself, but this might help someone else).
On Thursday 06 July 2006 11:45, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Is there a klibc howto somewhere? I tried googling for 'klibc howto', > reading the files in Documentation/ and browsing your klibc mailing list > archive before asking!
> What I'm wondering specifically is: Say a user needs to run some commands > to set up access to encrypted storage before they can resume. At the > moment, we'd tell them to put these commands and the echo > do_resume in > their linuxrc (or init) script prior to mounting their root filesystem. > Forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question but it's not immediately obvious > to me how they would now do that. I'd much rather follow a simple howto > than spend a good amount of time tracing function calls etc. I still see > init/initramfs.c, and it mentions both CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD and > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM. Would I be right in surmising that you can still have > an initrd or ramfs to do such things as the above, after klibc has done its > work? If not, is there some other way I'm ignorant of?
For the record, I've since discovered that what you really want is an initramfs howto. I think I stuck with those old-fangled initrds for too long. Better update my desktop from Mandrake 10 too :)... is there a pattern here?
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