On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:53:04PM -0700, Pat LaVarre wrote: > > 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? http://www.googlegroups.com/?as_q=linux-kernel%20root%3DLABEL The first thread (you need to read whole thread) it found, together with your description what happens gave enough clues. Oh, note, that the post is from *linux-kernel* (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org) and **NOT kernelnewbies** Perhaps someone should state this in FAQ: root=LABEL=/ is implemented in initrd and thus will only work when booting with initrd. > 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: > > $ ls /boot/initrd-*.img | wc > 13 13 397 These are the important file - initrd images. They are cramfs images (cramfs is a special filesystem for this purpose). It should be possible to mount them on loopback. Inside there is a program called linuxrc. However when I think of it, it's probably a binary and does the translation in the binary code. Script might be involved, but probably not in the conversion. > mkinitrd ... (8) - creates initial ramdisk images ... This is the important tool. I however don't know what in RedHat uses it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
