From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Katz Subject: Re: [PATCH] dracut: make initial devices outside of initramfs Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 22:44:54 -0400 Message-ID: <20090526024454.GA10049@redhat.com> References: <1243305738.3584.40.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1243305738.3584.40.camel-1q1vX8mYZiGLUyTwlgNVppKKF0rrzTr+@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On Monday, May 25 2009, David Dillow said: > dash gets upset when it cannot open /dev/tty, and we lose stderr. Even > if we make /dev/tty once we're in the initramfs, it will still be too > late for the inital dash shell running the init script. So, make a small > set of nodes in the dracut script while building the directory structure > of the initramfs. Creating the nodes in the dracut script means that you can't create the initramfs as non-root, though. :( Jeremy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html