From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932931Ab2AEWEG (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:04:06 -0500 Received: from a.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.143]:47834 "EHLO radon.swed.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932376Ab2AEWEF (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:04:05 -0500 Message-ID: <4F061E4F.4080103@nod.at> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:03:59 +0100 From: Richard Weinberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" 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 References: <1325789819-30502-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> <4F0619F9.8010505@nod.at> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig8F52BC6C228FF9F14461AD26" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig8F52BC6C228FF9F14461AD26 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 i= t > has decided there is no /init to play with. >=20 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 /li= nuxrc, but no /init. I had no clue why the kernel always tried to boot from root=3D. Thanks, //richard --------------enig8F52BC6C228FF9F14461AD26 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPBh5PAAoJEN9758yqZn9eEYkIAK2oTajA3+iv4imuFSqtsAso Ws1hRnBFK22vKTtloSfGaUbIbAiyCQrvOux1a6wiX+uhxpchhIMvDZ0qYwk8k0VY WldBCE/TQbpO+jpJ2bkwqUwpuDQtszMe4U86530+rWp3us1SDhmKYhFJMHgLoqpq rhKHboNW+9axFNFU+kz8tVBDViEHr1uNO1MSr8jRdeEhkBHXiJnfTo3K/OVcrtWk DF5dkPTZ6TtbgwgTB14rLRy06T02WYiqdYcDGsybuIWp8Q1OcR+mwAgQ+CVmrsdB nakoZP7OJvyHI0PStQSQfrOIBiOX9ca/6CaLeKZDPPBNZCBAGKVyWSNge5cmsWE= =GDZB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig8F52BC6C228FF9F14461AD26--