Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrey Borzenkov <> | Subject | Re: Initrd problem with 2.6 kernel | Date | Sat, 9 Aug 2003 00:52:40 +0400 |
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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.
{pts/1}% grep \"/sys\" * do_mounts.c: sys_mkdir("/sys", 0700); do_mounts.c: if (sys_mount("sysfs", "/sys", "sysfs", 0, NULL) < 0) do_mounts.c: sys_umount("/sys", 0); do_mounts.c: sys_rmdir("/sys");
or do you mean something different?
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