From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266284AbUHCONj (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:13:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266486AbUHCONj (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:13:39 -0400 Received: from ns.tasking.nl ([195.193.207.2]:49164 "EHLO ns.tasking.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266284AbUHCONi (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:13:38 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: dick.streefland@altium.nl (Dick Streefland) Organization: Altium BV X-Face: "`*@3nW;mP[=Z(!`?W;}cn~3M5O_/vMjX&Pe!o7y?xi@;wnA&Tvx&kjv'N\P&&5Xqf{2CaT 9HXfUFg}Y/TT^?G1j26Qr[TZY%v-1A<3?zpTYD5E759Q?lEoR*U1oj[.9\yg_o.~O.$wj:t(B+Q_?D XX57?U,#b,iM$[zX'I(!'VCQM)N)x~knSj>M*@l}y9(tK\rYwdv%~+&*jV"epphm>|q~?ys:g:K#R" 2PuAzy-N9cKM From: spam@altium.nl (Dick Streefland) Subject: Re: NFS-mounted, read-only /dev unusable in 2.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.17.1.66 Message-ID: <64bf.410f9d6f.62af@altium.nl> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:13:03 -0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Frank Steiner 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. -- Dick Streefland //// Altium BV dick.streefland@altium.nl (@ @) http://www.altium.com --------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo---------------------------