I am not familiar with dracut internals. Can you or someone be a little more 
specific on how it's not supported to mount initramfs itself as final root fs? 
What are my options or alternatives?

David

>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] [mailto:initramfs-
>[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cong Wang
>Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 9:01 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Q: mount initramfs as the final root fs
>
>On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 at 00:54 GMT, David Li <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I need to let the kernel to mount the initramfs (created by dracut) as
>> the final root filesystem. No disk and no NFS either!
>>
>> I tried kernel option root=/dev/ram0 (the initrd way to mount init ram
>> disk) but dracut didn't recognize this option. What should I use to
>> accomplish this?
>>
>
>AFAIK, drauct doesn't support this currently. Think about that, who will mkfs
>your /dev/ram0? Dracut has to do that if you want this working. It would not
>be hard to make a patch for this, I think.
>
>
>--
>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the 
>body
>of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at
>http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to