On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Luciano Rocha wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:23:39AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > the kernel clearly defines the "retain_initrd" kernel parameter,
> > so i'm just curious as to its purpose.
>
> To preserve initrds. That is, filesystem images passed as an initrd
> t
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:23:39AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i only have a few minutes to reply to this, but i think you're
> oversimplifying. there are two possible early root filesystems:
>
> 1) the *internal* initramfs
> 2) the *external* initrd image
> if you check the source in
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Luciano Rocha wrote:
> The initrd option in grub, and the similar one in other boot
> loaders, passes a binary image to the kernel.
>
> Then the kernel identifies it as an initramfs or as an initrd. When
> the kernel boots, you can see this message:
> Trying to unpack rootfs
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:34:58AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Luciano Rocha wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:39:48AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > > i'm still looking for how to keep the initrd mounted after
> > > booting on my x86_64 system. can't y
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:39:48AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> i'm still looking for how to keep the initrd mounted after booting
> on my x86_64 system. can't you do that anymore? it's been a while
> since i tried that, and i thought the kernel parm "retain_initrd"
> would do it, and le
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Luciano Rocha wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:39:48AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > i'm still looking for how to keep the initrd mounted after
> > booting on my x86_64 system. can't you do that anymore? it's
> > been a while since i tried that, and i thought t
i'm still looking for how to keep the initrd mounted after booting
on my x86_64 system. can't you do that anymore? it's been a while
since i tried that, and i thought the kernel parm "retain_initrd"
would do it, and leave it mounted at /initrd. apparently not. am i
misremembering? is there
