> Ok, this is the complete output of a typical install:
>
> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
> 1 ? SW 0:01 swapper
> 2 ? SW 0:00 kflushd
> 3 ? SW< 0:00 kswapd
> 4 ? SW 0:00 nfsiod
> 5 ? SW 0:00 nfsiod
> 6 ? SW 0:00 nfsiod
> 7 ? SW 0:00 nfsiod
> 8 1 S 0:01 linuxrc
> 17 ? S 0:00 update (bdflush)
> 18 2 S 0:00 bash
> 20 5 S 0:00 bash
> 21 6 S 0:00 bash
> 24 1 S 0:00 /sbin/YaST
> 42 2 R 0:02 ps -ax
Here's a novel, off-the-wall, and probably totally impossible suggestion:
why not stick init in the initrd, have init be loaded from there, and make
init do special things when it's in an initrd?
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