> From: Jan Hudec [mailto:bulb@ucw.cz] > I did a brief lookup on linux-kernel list ... Please could you share with us the search you tried that worked? I tried this search myself before launching this thread, and again I tried now for another educational but irrelevant fifteen minutes or so. I had a log of what I tried just now, but then regrettably I lost my log in the context switch between answering this reply and the next. > From: Jan Hudec [mailto:bulb@ucw.cz] > what is in redhat initrd > - if it's a shell script, you might try to check it Help?!? Newbie that I am, I do not know what we mean by "initrd" in this context, so I don't know where to go to check my "initrd". I gather we mean to be referring to some file that might be a shell script. I do not know the name of that file. Myself I only know of the seemingly irrelevant: $ sudo find / -name '*initrd*' | tee f.i.txt | wc 123 123 6178 $ ls /initrd $ ls /boot/initrd-*.img | wc 13 13 397 $ cat Documentation/initrd.txt | wc 340 2128 13494 $ man -k initrd initrd ... (4) - boot loader initialized RAM disk lvmcreate_initrd ... (8) - create an initial ramdisk mkinitrd ... (8) - creates initial ramdisk images ... pcinitrd ... (8) - create a PCMCIA initrd ram ... $ man initrd $ man mkinitrd $ man pcinitrd $ sudo find / -name '*linuxrc*' | tee f.l.txt | wc 0 0 0 $ > From: Seth Arnold [mailto:sarnold@wirex.com] > See this email: > Subject: Re: What does kernel option `root=LABEL=/' do? > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> > Date: 26 Mar 2003 09:45:15 +0100 Ouch, I think I see we're repeating each other, I must be missing something that is obvious to the inculcated. I think you mean to point me to a kernelnewbies post containing that text. But I began this thread by mentioning that we of kernelnewbies have left this question unanswered at least three times before: 2003-05-31 Re: VFS cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or unknown_ 2003-03-26 Re: What does kernel option `root=LABEL=/' do? 2002-11-19 Re: Kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs The kernelnewbies email you mention seemingly appears in the second of those threads. I imagine I first found that thread by searching for the text of the panic. The view I have here of that email is: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=kernelnewbies&m=104866848024626 That view contains only a denial of another purportedly false theory and the flat assertion: "It's the initrd that takes care of mounting the rootfs by label." Ok fine, myself I am too ignorant to affirm or deny this claim. Newbie that I am, I'm stuck on a more basic level: I do not know what we mean by "the initrd". I mean to be echoing any one of the family of frequently asked questions we perhaps most recently left unanswered as: --- http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=kernelnewbies&m=104872326527715 List: kernelnewbies Subject: Re: What does kernel option `root=LABEL=/' do? From: "Paul Claessen" <paul () claessen ! com> Date: 2003-03-26 23:58:03 [Download message RAW] But then I'm afraid I have to re-instate my original question, since the 'make install' DOES put a 2.4.20 initrd in the boot directory and adds an initrd entry to the 2.4.20 grub entry. In fact, everything looks exactly like the set-up of the original 2.4.18-14 kernel. So, if this is NOT dependent on a special patch (in either the kernel or initrd) that Red Hat uses and the main code line doesn't, then why can't I boot with these labels? Any comment welcome! Btw, the fstab man page, although it does mention the 'labeled' boot, didn't really clear this label issue up for me. If anyone can explain to details and arguments for its (volume labels) use to me, then I would be eternally grateful ! (I'm not only trying to get this to work, I also would like to understand it... ;-) ) Kind Regards, - Paul --- Pat LaVarre __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
