In article <200005291923.MAA21331@adam.yggdrasil.com>,
Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com> wrote:
>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.
I don't care if I use /linuxrc or preinit=foo but there is a need
to have something. Dave has already listed various things he wants
to do before running init.
I'll add another example, loading block device and raid modules
so that the autodect_raid() will work.
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