Dave Cinege wrote:
> Again, one needs to jump through hoops,
"Hoops" are much more acceptable than "preclude".
>> It's "initrd is always magic" and "/linuxrc is there to do that
>> root change thing" vs. "A RAM disk root is a regular RAM disk root
>> no matter how you load it".
>
> Please rephrase that, since root=/dev/ram1 won't exhibit this.
Not quite sure what you mean. initrd should always end up on /dev/ram[0],
no ?
> I'd say the REMOTE CHANCE of that is NULL. Why would you have an initrd image,
> with /linuxrc, and not want to execute it?
Agreed on remote chance. Not sure about null. Examples:
- really wicked stuff that changes behaviour depending on context
- somebody's left a /linuxrc by accident
> For MONTHS I was trying to use /linuxrc, before I took the time to go
> through the kernel code and figure out why it wasn't working.
Sorry :-(
- Werner
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