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From: Mark A. <mr...@po...> - 2001-04-04 18:36:33
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"David L. Parsley" <pa...@li...> writes: > Mark Atwood wrote: > > > And isn't the kernel still in "initrd mode", wanting to do a > > pivot/init instead of halting the system as soon as that "initial > > process" dies? > > No, by supplying a root device of /dev/ram, the kernel assumes that the > initrd ramdisk is the true root filesystem, and either uses the > command-line supplied init or looks for /sbin/init. Then, using > pivot_root, you can change the root filesystem whenever you like - but > usually just once during boot. Excellent. This needs to be documented somewhere better. (Well, with mailling list archives, I guess it just was!) > > Let me know if you want my tftp patches. It makes about a 10k > dynamically-linked binary, but that's not too bad. Please. -- Mark Atwood | I'm wearing black only until I find something darker. mr...@po... | http://www.pobox.com/~mra |
