Re: udev in the initrd

hi,


>i'll see if i can come up with something basic, maybe make the
>encryption/network/mail stuff optional in the rockinitrd...
>  
>
i quickly learned that it's already optional. i wrote 3 patches,
2006010619351118177, 2006010619521821076 and 2006010621045714639, which
fix some other things i noticed, and leave one important thing to be
considered, before this can go live:

we need to pass root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc to grub/lilo, regardless of
what root/init will be used. otherwise the initrd's linuxrc will not
have pid1, which will prevent the sysv /sbin/init from acting like it
should, and switching to telinit behaviour instead.

this means the root in /etc/fstab is the holy grail, and we *must* set
filesystem checks to '0' there (the check whould try to run when the
filesystem is already mounted).

we also *must* force the use of the initrd. the recreation of the initrd
image now availibe in stone should be made an automated step for the
install.

if there are no objections, i will begin replacing the 'old' initrd with
rockinitrd really soon.

greets,

fake