Re: Keep initrd tasks running?

From: Matt Zimmerman
Date: Sun Oct 23 2005 - 15:40:29 EST


On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:52:30PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> thought that with initramfs, init actually exited and the kernel unmounted
> the initramfs, and mounted the real root and ran the real init.

This is not what happens; look at run-init in klibc if you want to
understand how it does work.

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- mdz
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