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Subject: Re: udev in initrd
From: Greg KH <greg () kroah ! com>
Date: 2004-05-28 23:29:50
Message-ID: 20040528232950.GA14432 () kroah ! com
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On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:05:13PM +0200, Thomas Woerner wrote:
>
> There are test packages in http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/UDEV/ for
> using udev in initrd with persistent devices.
Sweet, thanks for posting this, I really appreciate it.
One small question:
> udev initrd - using busybox and ramfs
> -------------------------------------
> 1) mount /proc and /sys
> 2) mount /dev as ramfs
> 3) create initial devices (eg: console, null, zero, loopX) and links for std
> files
> 4) start udev, use udevsend as hotplug
What do you do to "start udev"? Run udevstart?
> 5) load modules (eg. controller, filesystem)
> 6) umount /sys
> 7) locate root device
> 8) mount system root on /sysroot
> 9) bind /dev to /sysroot [UDEV_KEEP_DEV="yes"]
> 10) change root to /sysroot and initrd to /sysroot/initrd
> 11) umount /initrd/proc
> 12) umount /initrd/dev [UDEV_KEEP_DEV="yes"]
Are you looking into making a initramfs instead of a initrd for the next
FC3 release?
thanks,
greg k-h
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