> - what happens if you boot without devfs (with devfs unmounted)?

It boots fine when i start the kernel with devfs=unmount.
/var/log/syslog:Jul  8 23:44:35 blino rc.sysinit: Unmounting initrd:  succeeded

> - what happens if you boot without devfs with root mounted read-write 
> initially (I am afraid, if you use ext3, reiser or similar you will have to 
> edit mkinitrd and recreate initrd to do it - currently mkinitrd has builtin 
> 'mount --ro').

Since I use ext3, i've changed --ro to --rw in /sbin/mkinitrd and I've launched 
/usr/share/loader/make-initrd, I hope it was the right thing to do :-)
I cannot see any difference with the previous case.
/var/log/syslog:Jul  8 23:50:26 blino rc.sysinit: Unmounting initrd:  succeeded

thanks for your help
Olivier

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