Re: initrd and 2.6.0-test8

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:02:15 +0200, Witold Krecicki <adasi@xxxxxxxxx>  said:

> But do you have HDD-controller parts as modules or built-in? According to the
> changelog message, if initrd is detected as 'usual initrd' (e.g. not
> initramfs), then it's copied to /dev/initrd on rootfs. But as I understand,
> there is no such thing as rootfs as long as it isn't mounted (ide/scsi
> modules are not loaded

What happens in the case of a devfs-based system where the real rootfs
can't be mounted till after the initrd is loaded, because / is on an LVM
volume?  I know my laptop crashed-and-burned on this, even though the IDE
and LVM modules were built into the kernel....

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