From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@interia.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: root fs on usb - is patching kernel still needed?
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 06:29:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040517042903.GB578@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40A7BDBC.9010209@interia.pl>
Hi,
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 09:15:08PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Are there any solutions for this problem in stable or pre- kernel tree
> yet (2.4 or 2.6)? If not, will such a solution be ever included in a
> stable kernel?
AFAICT, none has been merged (yet).
> Or maybe are there any easier solutions for this (some lilo or grub
> option?)
An initrd might do the trick, although it's sometimes unconvenient to use :
- lilo (or grub) loads the initrd into memory
- lilo (or grub) loads the kernel and executes it
- the kernel sees the initrd and mounts it and executes /linuxrc
- linuxrc can load USB modules and wait the required amount of time
- linuxrc then mounts the root fs and does the pivot_root() and exits
- the kernel finally boots /sbin/init from your USB FS.
Regards,
Willy
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2004-05-16 19:15 Tomasz Chmielewski
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