Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:28:51 -0500 | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] USB HardDisk Booting 2.4.20 |
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>> Is there a reason for not using initrd for this. That should let you >> use any kind of root device even ones requiring user space work before >> the real root is mounted. > > Yes, I believe there is. IMO initrd is too much of an annoyance to setup.
I believe it's going to be mandatory anyway, perhaps not as initrd, but as initfs, but the result is the same. Besides, it's not that big a deal if rpm -i makes initrd for you automagically.
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