* Re: /dev before the root filesystem is mounted
2006-11-13 12:15 ` Ivan Ukhov
@ 2006-11-13 12:26 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-13 13:32 ` Erik Mouw
1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Jan Engelhardt @ 2006-11-13 12:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ivan Ukhov; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List
On Nov 13 2006 15:15, 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. How should it? The root filesystem / is empty, other
people can verify that, or you can verify it yourself with an
initramfs (which, unlike an initrd, is copied to / instead of being
mounted).
Yes, the kernel understands root=/dev/ but that's a hack, a strstr(s,
"/dev/"). Should you want to use, say, root=/devices/hda instead,
that would only succeed when using an initrd/initramfs.
To display the accepted block devices (this is most likely what you
really wanted), check out
ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/kernel/linux-2.6.18-jen35/show_partitions.diff
Please (a) don't top post (b) don't strip Cc:s.
>
> 2006/11/13, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>:
>>
>> > I want the kernel (2.4) to display (just using printk) all available
>> > devices with full path (/dev/...) before the root filesystem is
>> > mounted.
>>
>> Case 1: You do not use an initrd/initramfs:
>> / is empty, /dev does not exist.
>>
>> Case 2: You do use an initrd/initramfs
>> You populated /dev during creation of the initrd/initramfs image OR
>> your init script inside the initrd/initramfs mknods the nodes when run.
>>
>>
>> -`J'
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* Re: /dev before the root filesystem is mounted
2006-11-13 12:15 ` Ivan Ukhov
2006-11-13 12:26 ` Jan Engelhardt
@ 2006-11-13 13:32 ` Erik Mouw
1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Erik Mouw @ 2006-11-13 13:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ivan Ukhov; +Cc: Jan Engelhardt, linux-kernel
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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