Re: [PATCH] initrd with devfs enabled (Re: initrd and 2.6.0-test8)

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Sunday 19 of October 2003 00:11, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
wrote:

> > I've tried to create initramfs image with unpacking initrd image,
[...]
> > It doesn't work that way unfortunately (test8 with your patch).
>
> Yes and no - it *is* unpacked, but currently we have no code that would
> try to run something from initramfs.  If you want to play with that -
> add something like run_init_process("/init"); right before the call of
> prepare_namespace() in init/main.c (and be ready to have /init on
> initramfs do the rest, obvoiusly).
I see. So right now external initramfs image seems to be unusable (probably 
the same when compiling it in the kernel) right now. The quesion arrives - 
what was the reason to not put run_init_process("/linuxrc") by default there 
(like it is for initrd) ?

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz    CS at FoE, Wroclaw University of Technology
arekm.pld-linux.org AM2-6BONE, 1024/3DB19BBD, arekm(at)ircnet, PLD/Linux

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