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SubjectRe: initramfs howto?
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"Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com> writes:
> Ooh, I see that Olaf Hering has a recent variant of this patch which is
> in -aa kernels. Andrew, can you consider dropping this into -mc or -mm,
> please? It won't break normal operation, but will relieve the pain of
> the not-yet-battle-scarred. It's less fugly than the earlier dev=0:0
> patch. Maybe.
>
> http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.6/2.6.5-rc3-aa1/initramfs-search-for-init

If you use that, can you just keep using the initial initramfs as your
root fs forever? That'd be swell for embedded systems...

If so, it'd be nice if it checked for some other name than /init
(e.g. /sbin/init) -- there's too much crap in / already.

Thanks,

-Miles
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I'd rather be consing.
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