I am not familiar with dracut internals. Can you or someone be a little more specific on how it's not supported to mount initramfs itself as final root fs? What are my options or alternatives? David >-----Original Message----- >From: initramfs-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:initramfs- >owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cong Wang >Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 9:01 AM >To: initramfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: Q: mount initramfs as the final root fs > >On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 at 00:54 GMT, David Li <w.david.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I need to let the kernel to mount the initramfs (created by dracut) as >> the final root filesystem. No disk and no NFS either! >> >> I tried kernel option root=/dev/ram0 (the initrd way to mount init ram >> disk) but dracut didn't recognize this option. What should I use to >> accomplish this? >> > >AFAIK, drauct doesn't support this currently. Think about that, who will mkfs >your /dev/ram0? Dracut has to do that if you want this working. It would not >be hard to make a patch for this, I think. > > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body >of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at >http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
