Re: NFS-mounted, read-only /dev unusable in 2.6

[Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>]

Dick Streefland wrote:
> Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de> wrote:
> | Or is there any other way to get an initial console or
> | output any messages from an init script if one boots via nfsroot
> | and  / (and thus, /dev) is only exported read-only from the
> | server?
> 
> You can boot with a ramdisk as root, initialized with an initrd, and
> then perform all NFS mounts manually in the init script. You can use
> pivot_root to switch to an NFS root to get rid of the ramdisk.

I'm hoping for an easier solution, because it's a lot of work just
to get the console messages onto the screen. But maybe I have to go
through this :-)



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