Re: CFboot images

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 19:48, Alexandre Boeglin wrote:
> Le dimanche 12 septembre 2004 à 16:02, Koen Kooi a écrit :
> > >* add a linuxrc to the rootfs which contains 'exec /sbin/init', this
> > >should go in the rootfs though
> > I meant it should go in the initrd.
>
> Hello,
>
> Isn't it the kernel's job to launch /bin/init? I think that the linuxrc
> script and initrd should only be used to load modules and mount the root
> partition for the kernel to be able to access /bin/init.
You're right, but at this moment the kernel can't reach init, so we use
pivot_root and exec /sbin/init for now.

regards,

Koen
Received on Sun Sep 12 15:06:18 2004