On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:05:13PM +0200, Thomas Woerner wrote: > > There are test packages in http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/UDEV/ for > using udev in initrd with persistent devices. Sweet, thanks for posting this, I really appreciate it. One small question: > udev initrd - using busybox and ramfs > ------------------------------------- > 1) mount /proc and /sys > 2) mount /dev as ramfs > 3) create initial devices (eg: console, null, zero, loopX) and links for std > files > 4) start udev, use udevsend as hotplug What do you do to "start udev"? Run udevstart? > 5) load modules (eg. controller, filesystem) > 6) umount /sys > 7) locate root device > 8) mount system root on /sysroot > 9) bind /dev to /sysroot [UDEV_KEEP_DEV="yes"] > 10) change root to /sysroot and initrd to /sysroot/initrd > 11) umount /initrd/proc > 12) umount /initrd/dev [UDEV_KEEP_DEV="yes"] Are you looking into making a initramfs instead of a initrd for the next FC3 release? thanks, greg k-h
