From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267098AbUBMRMc (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:12:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267128AbUBMRMc (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:12:32 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:55973 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267098AbUBMRMa (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:12:30 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: Initrd Question Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <1oMkR-1Zk-21@gated-at.bofh.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1076692325 23433 63.209.29.3 (13 Feb 2004 17:12:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:12:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: 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 -- PGP public key available - finger hpa@zytor.com Key fingerprint: 2047/2A960705 BA 03 D3 2C 14 A8 A8 BD 1E DF FE 69 EE 35 BD 74 "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Bahá'u'lláh Just Say No to Morden * The Shadows were defeated -- Babylon 5 is renewed!!