On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 22:44 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Monday, May 25 2009, David Dillow said: > > dash gets upset when it cannot open /dev/tty, and we lose stderr. Even > > if we make /dev/tty once we're in the initramfs, it will still be too > > late for the inital dash shell running the init script. So, make a small > > set of nodes in the dracut script while building the directory structure > > of the initramfs. > > Creating the nodes in the dracut script means that you can't create the > initramfs as non-root, though. :(
Bummer, that. And while it makes the initial dash able to give us stderr, it doesn't fix the emergency shell. Of course, I noticed this after hitting send... so bad patch all around. :( -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
