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List:       evms-devel
Subject:    Re: [Evms-devel] initrd
From:       Kevin Corry <kevcorry () us ! ibm ! com>
Date:       2005-01-10 3:07:35
Message-ID: 200501092107.35734.kevcorry () us ! ibm ! com
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On Sunday 09 January 2005 13:12, syrius.ml@no-log.org wrote:
> I'm running a 2.6.10-mm2 kernel with root on evms volume.
> It seems 2.6.10-mm2 doesn't like the old deprecated way of running an
> initrd.
> (It expects root=/dev/ram0 and doesn't allow
> root=/dev/evms/root_whatever when using an initrd)
>
> I made some changes to linuxrc so that it searches the new root device
> in the newroot boot param. It also uses pivot_root rather than the
> obsolete root change mechanism.
>
> My boot params are now:
> root=/dev/ram0 newroot=/dev/evms/my_evms_root init=/linuxrc rw
> ramdisk=8192
>
> linuxrc patch attached if it can help.

Thanks for the heads-up about -mm and for the suggested linuxrc patch. I'll 
try it out in the morning and look into changing the docs.

-- 
Kevin Corry
kevcorry@us.ibm.com
http://evms.sourceforge.net



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