Re: [PATCH] dracut: make initial devices outside of initramfs

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On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 22:44 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Monday, May 25 2009, David Dillow said:
> > dash gets upset when it cannot open /dev/tty, and we lose stderr. Even
> > if we make /dev/tty once we're in the initramfs, it will still be too
> > late for the inital dash shell running the init script. So, make a small
> > set of nodes in the dracut script while building the directory structure
> > of the initramfs.
> 
> Creating the nodes in the dracut script means that you can't create the
> initramfs as non-root, though.  :(

Bummer, that. And while it makes the initial dash able to give us
stderr, it doesn't fix the emergency shell. Of course, I noticed this
after hitting send... so bad patch all around. :(

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