Sreenath,
Sorry, my mistake. It's actually the switchroot command that takes care
of pivoting root, and then it calls /etc/rc.early_sysinit.
You can grab the source code for the LBE, and then look in
lbe/initramfs-src/switchroot/switchroot.
http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LBE
Jim McQuillan
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Sreenath Battalahalli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It is not clear from the init script in initramfs
> directory how rc.early_sysinit gets executed.
>
> The init script basically configures the NIC interface
> using dhcp, mounts the new root file system over NFS
> and switches root to new root file system. But how
> rc.early_sysinit gets to run before init is not clear.
>
> Looks like some sort of magic!
>
> thanks,
> Sreenath
>
> --- Jim McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> On Wed, September 13, 2006 7:53 am, Sreenath
>> Battalahalli wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Who runs rc.early_sysinit script?
>>> This seems to run before init itself!
>>>
>> Indeed, it runs before init. In fact, it creates
>> the inittab file that
>> init uses.
>>
>> It's run from the 'init' script in the initramfs.
>>
>> You can grab the ltsp_kernel_kit. There's a link to
>> it on the
>> http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LTSP-42
>> page. Look in the
>> 'Update-3' section for the link.
>>
>> Jim McQuillan
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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