linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3][try 1] init: enable system-on-initramfs

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Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:47:55 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3][try 1] init: enable system-on-initramfs

Bodo Eggert wrote:
> I toyed with setting up a diskless system in initramfs. In the process, I
> came across some things:
> 
> 1)  There is no way to have the kernel not mount a filesystem,
>     unless you use /init or rdinit=.

And?  Just use rdinit=/sbin/init and no patch is needed.

> 2a) I figured if you prepared the root fs to contain a running system, you
>     woud probably also set up a runnable system on it. Therefore I changed
>     the default to boot from tmpfs if there was no /init nor a root= option.
>     (If there is a /init, it will be executed as usural.)
> 
>     Unfortunately the way I do it, this will override the rdev setting, but
>     that should be OK, since rdev is dead. Isn't it?

That's pretty hideous.  There shouldn't be a need for doing that.

rdev, unfortunately, isn't dead -- it lives on in the form of
/proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev, as I found out doing the klibc set.

	-hpa
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