My apologies for not providing the information earlier... and for my mistake in supplying the link to my initrd image. I have been bookmarking sites like mad and apparently chose the wrong one...
if you even quit posting in multipart/alternative i'll be an happy man :))))
Here is my linuxrc inside the initrd image (this is the one based off of the evms initrd I found on the web, since it seemed the most complete).
Please note that I still can't get the "/bin/ash" command to work properly,
though I'm working on it. I did put in the /dev/tty* and /dev/pt* nodes
into the initrd image, but still no luck.
here's the initrd i produce (shell is modified mdk/redhat nash) note that i mount manually the root fs then i pivot_root.
------------------------------------------------- ... load modules ... echo Mounting /proc filesystem mount -t proc /proc /proc echo Creating device files mkdevices /dev echo Activating md devices mknod /dev/md1 b 9 1 mdassemble echo Scanning logical volumes vgscan echo Activating logical volumes vgchange -ay echo 0x0100 > /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev echo Mounting root filesystem mount -o defaults --ro -t ext3 /dev/vg00/lvol1 /sysroot pivot_root /sysroot /sysroot/initrd echo Remounting devfs at correct place if necessary handledevfs umount /initrd/proc ------------------------------------------------- mkdevices: creates device files based on /proc/partitions (if not devfs) mdassemble: diet-libc version of mdadm --assemble (cannot build full mdadm with diet-libc) handledevfs: is described in the comment above
you can append options to lilo command lines (just type 'em)Here is my menu.lst from grub. I've been testing with grub just so that I could enter changes at boot time instead of running "lilo" all over the place.
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gweber@windforce:/tmp/test$ more menu.lst default=1 root (hd0,3) splashimage (hd0,0)/grub/images/debian_cooleye-dither.xpm.gz vga=791 title Linux (2.6.0-lvm) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.0-test9-aa0.2 root=fe00 console=ttys0 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-gw.gz
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ttys0 ??? i tought serial console was ttyS0,<speed>
L.
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