From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: Ivan Ukhov <uvsoft@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /dev before the root filesystem is mounted
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:32:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061113133242.GA4019@harddisk-recovery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5de567c0611130415t6cbe97efr8e60a3d3e091d04d@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:15:26PM +0300, Ivan Ukhov wrote:
> i dont use initrd. the kernel understands argument 'root=/dev/...', so
> /dev should exist, mb not in a real filesystem, but just in ram or
> something. i just want to know what devices are available for being
> the root filesystem for the kernel (displaying all available devices
> will be enough for me).
/dev does not exist because there is no root filesystem mounted. Please
read http://kernelnewbies.org/RootFileSystem .
Erik
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-13 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-13 10:52 Ivan Ukhov
2006-11-13 11:36 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-13 12:15 ` Ivan Ukhov
2006-11-13 12:26 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-13 13:32 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
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