From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Subject: Re: Kernel setup() and initrd problems
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:53:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E72413E.5090906@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E723ECD.8010000@zytor.com
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Chris Friesen wrote:
>>Maybe I'm just confused.
> I think so.
>
> The way to get around the historical baggage is to tell the kernel that
> the initrd is a "permanent" initrd by using the "root=/dev/ram0"
> command-line option. This has the side effect of bypassing all the
> initrd historical crap and instead spawning /sbin/init using PID 1, like
> any other system would do. Now you can just pivot and "exec /sbin/init"
> like you should be.
Thanks for that excellent explanation.
Chris
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-14 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-13 8:42 Kernel setup() and initrd problems Oliver Tennert
2003-03-13 17:16 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-03-13 18:05 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-03-14 19:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-14 19:27 ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-14 19:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-14 20:04 ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-14 20:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-14 20:53 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
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