Re: [PATCH] dracut: make initial devices outside of initramfs

[Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 05/26/2009 04:59 PM, David Dillow wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 16:36 +0200, Andreas Thienemann wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 May 2009, David Dillow wrote:
>>
>>> Bummer, that. And while it makes the initial dash able to give us
>>> stderr, it doesn't fix the emergency shell. Of course, I noticed this
>>> after hitting send... so bad patch all around. :(
>> I think the patch is unnecessary in any case.
>>
>> Dash loosing stderr when /dev/tty is unavailable is a dash bug. It's been
>> fixed in upstream git and the patch has been applied to rawhide and F11.
>>
>> I think the problem should be considered fixed and we won't have to
>> introduce workarounds like pre-creating device nodes.
>
> Some of us want to use dracut on F10, or better yet CentOS 5.3. And we
> test on released distros, not an unreleased one (albeit coming very
> soon).
>
> Does my later patch, that just makes /dev/tty point to /dev/console for
> the emergency shell seem unobtrusive enough to take upstream?
>
> If I need to carry this locally, I don't mind, but I figure others could
> use the fix when working on the initramfs.
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just omit the dash module for debugging purposes :)

dracut --omit dash

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