From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mingo@elte.hu, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: Warn on non-existent rdinit
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:03:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F061E4F.4080103@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1vcopajxy.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
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Am 05.01.2012 23:00, schrieb Eric W. Biederman:
> Perhaps it has a /linuxrc. If you can find a way of figuring out we
> always need the file we can print an error. Otherwise it is a case of
> the kernel auto-detecting what to do, and not printing a warning when it
> has decided there is no /init to play with.
>
If i find a nice way, I'll post a patch.
In my case I had a kernel with a built-in initramfs which contained a /linuxrc, but no /init.
I had no clue why the kernel always tried to boot from root=.
Thanks,
//richard
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-05 18:56 [PATCH] init: Warn on non-existent rdinit Richard Weinberger
2012-01-05 20:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-05 21:45 ` Richard Weinberger
2012-01-05 22:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-05 22:03 ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
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