From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Initrd Question
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:12:05 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c0j0h5$ms8$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1ArfAQ-00007f-7Z@localhost
Followup to: <E1ArfAQ-00007f-7Z@localhost>
By author: der.eremit@email.de
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Now you're saying the kernel ignores real-root-dev, while a moment
> before you state that it is important to set real-root-dev because
> otherwise the kernel does something. Which is it?
>
You have to set root=/dev/ram0 in the boot loader, so that the kernel
will spawn /sbin/init with pid 1. Otherwise it spawns /linuxrc with a
non-1 pid, for dumb historical reasons.
Thus, setting it in the script is too late to do any good.
-hpa
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[not found] <1oMkR-1Zk-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-02-13 15:23 ` Initrd Question der.eremit
2004-02-13 16:42 ` Jim Gifford
2004-02-13 17:12 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-02-13 14:14 "Andrey Borzenkov"
2004-02-13 14:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-18 2:05 ` Robert White
[not found] <1oC26-8eW-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-02-13 13:30 ` der.eremit
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2004-02-13 3:12 Jim Gifford
2004-02-13 20:34 ` Chris Lingard
2001-06-18 7:20 initrd question Kelledin Tane
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