Re: [PATCH] initrd with devfs enabled (Re: initrd and 2.6.0-test8)

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@pld-linux.org>]

On Saturday 18 of October 2003 21:41, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk 
wrote:
> 	OK, that should do it - the problems happened if you had devfs
> enabled; in that case late-boot code does temporary mount of devfs over
> rootfs /dev, which made /dev/initrd inaccessible.  For setups without
> devfs that didn't happen.
>
> 	Fix is trivial - put the file in question outside of /dev; IOW,
> we simply replace "/dev/initrd" with "/initrd.image" in init/*.  It works
> here; please check if it fixes all initrd problems on your boxen.
Works fine for me.

btw. is it possible to do not use initrd with some fs and instead use external 
initramfs image?

I've tried to create initramfs image with unpacking initrd image, mounting it 
over loop and creating cpio archive from that (find . | cpio -o -c > 
../x.cpio), gzipping that cpio and placeing it instead of old initrd at 
/boot/initrd + lilo reload. 

It doesn't work that way unfortunately (test8 with your patch).
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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz    CS at FoE, Wroclaw University of Technology
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