initramfs support

Alexander E. Patrakov patrakov at ums.usu.ru
Sun Jul 1 20:38:09 MDT 2007


Bryan Kadzban wrote:
> And I've checked in something that sort-of works.  It runs through the
> initramfs without errors, and boots up and starts running the real init.
> However, if I activate the dmraid disk inside the initramfs, it won't
> re-activate once I hand control off to the real system.  And I can't get
> at the initramfs's /dev/mapper/hpt* device files from the real system,
> so I can't just copy them.  (Plus that'd be a problem when the udev
> script mounts its tmpfs/ramfs over /dev anyway.)

Then you have to run "dmsetup mknodes" just after udev. It will recreate dm 
devices that are already activated.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov



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