On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:29:45 +0100 Luca Berra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> will someone hear me please. > i posted about the same issue last time we spoke about replacing > initrd fs. > you need a writable dev! > for devfs this is easy > without devfs it is not! By the way, what should we do about devfs ? It is deprecated, but is there any working alternative yet ? udev needs userspace tools IIRC. > if you use 2.4 with LVM1 you also need a writable /etc (this > requrement can be lifted with LVM2, i believe) > > I am trying to find a way around it, probably my mkinitrd which > already creates device nodes on the fly has only to be slightly tuned: > mount a tmpfs on /dev and create the nodes i forgot about. > I will try to add cramfs/tmpfs support if someone kindly notices the > fact i am doing it, if this stuff is not scheduled to be merged > sometimes then i will not bother. Okay, I let you do it :) It would be a good start to have a look at Debian's linuxrc and mkinitrd, since they use exactly what you want to do. http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/initrd-tools/initrd-tools_0.1.55.tar.gz It was about to patch our linuxrc, but if you wanna do it, you're welcome :) Can you have a look at the mkinitrd/make-initrd patches I've begun ? Thanks -- Olivier Blin
