Hi Juan! I'd like to know if the devfs_noroot patch is available in CVS or anywhere or if you can send it to me, so I don't need to download ~30 GB kernel-source over modem line :-)
> Get mandrake 2.4.17.1mdk kernel, and search for a patch called
> devfs_noroot, problem is that devfs changed behaviour in one stable
> release :( and you are not able anymore to do an:
> unlink("/dev/root");
>
> that change happened in 2.4.17-preX. The workaround in Mandrake
> kernel is that we don't create that file anymore by devfs.
>
> Now you now what it takes so long to release an official 2.4.17 kernel
> in mandrake, not all the reasons was the holidays :)
>
> Notice that the patch(workaround is trivial), but finding that two
> damned lines was the difficult part :(
> reinhard> I also tested without initrd image. This fails as well:
>
> as and added bonus, now it is possible (again) to boot with
> devfs=nomount and it works :)
Good news :) When I tested I of course tried both with and without
devfs. Good to here that mkinitrd is not the cause of the trouble :):
Regards,
Reinhard Katzmann
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