Re: preinit= (Was: Re: [PATCH] 5 year old bug in main.c (initrd). Can this please be fixed?)

From: Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com)
Date: Mon May 29 2000 - 14:23:21 EST


Dave Cinege writes:
>Regaurding this whole /linuxrc thing. Someone mentioned, leaving it
>alone and creating a 'preinit=' that is run about the same place
>as /linuxrc. I'd love to see this..

What you are asking for is kernel bloat. If you thought my
arguments against /linuxrc were becuase I did not like the name
of the file or something like that, you completely missed the point.

Just pass init=/sbin/preinit and then exec /sbin/init at the end of
your "preinit" script.

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