From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266599AbUHCOoT (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:44:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266580AbUHCOoR (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:44:17 -0400 Received: from acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de ([129.187.214.135]:13961 "EHLO acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266531AbUHCOoI (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:44:08 -0400 Message-ID: <410FA44F.1020804@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 16:42:23 +0200 From: Frank Steiner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dick Streefland Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NFS-mounted, read-only /dev unusable in 2.6 References: <410F481C.9090408@bio.ifi.lmu.de> <64bf.410f9d6f.62af@altium.nl> In-Reply-To: <64bf.410f9d6f.62af@altium.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dick Streefland wrote: > Frank Steiner wrote: > | Or is there any other way to get an initial console or > | output any messages from an init script if one boots via nfsroot > | and / (and thus, /dev) is only exported read-only from the > | server? > > You can boot with a ramdisk as root, initialized with an initrd, and > then perform all NFS mounts manually in the init script. You can use > pivot_root to switch to an NFS root to get rid of the ramdisk. I'm hoping for an easier solution, because it's a lot of work just to get the console messages onto the screen. But maybe I have to go through this :-) -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *