From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Warren Togami Subject: Re: [PATCH] dracut: make initial devices outside of initramfs Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:26:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4A1DA202.5040509@redhat.com> References: <1243305738.3584.40.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <20090526024454.GA10049@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090526024454.GA10049-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: initramfs On 05/25/2009 10:44 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote: > 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. :( > Unless we write a separate program that outputs cpio files. Perhaps not worth the effort? How important is it to make initrd from non-root? Warren Togami wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org -- 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