Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:30:19 -0700 | From | "H. J. Lu" <> | Subject | Initrd problem with 2.6 kernel |
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There is a chicken and egg problem with initrd on 2.6. When root=/dev/xxx is passed to kernel, kernel will call try_name, which uses /sys/block/drive/dev, to find out the device number for ROOT_DEV. The problem is /sys/block/drive may not exist if the driver is loaded by /linuxrc in initrd. As the result, /linuxrc can't use /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev to determine the root device number.
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