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From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Chris Meadors <clubneon@hereintown.net>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: initramfs howto?
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:21:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1081531299.19918.13.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buo4qrt4pga.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 23:48, Miles Bader wrote:

> If you use that, can you just keep using the initial initramfs as your
> root fs forever?  That'd be swell for embedded systems...

You could do so, yep.

> If so, it'd be nice if it checked for some other name than /init
> (e.g. /sbin/init) -- there's too much crap in / already.

I'm agnostic.  It's a two-line patch.  I don't care if it's called
/spam/fandango/wubble, so long as the brave souls who are trying out
initramfs don't keep stumbling over the same problem again and again :-)

	<b


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-09 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-08 19:17 initramfs howto? Chris Meadors
2004-04-09  5:56 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2004-04-09  6:48   ` Miles Bader
2004-04-09 17:21     ` Bryan O'Sullivan [this message]
2004-04-10  0:50       ` Miles Bader
2004-04-19 19:48       ` Chris Lingard
2004-04-19 21:39         ` H. Peter Anvin

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