similar to: Query regarding initramfs

Hi I am looking at inserting functions in the early user space and want to use initramfs for this. I understand this can be achieved using 'initrd' or by making changes in the 'usr/gen_init_cpio.c' file. Can someone kindly give me pointers as to how to go about this. I am looking at the 2.6.x kernel. Thanks Rachita.

Hi 1. Is it possible to load an initrd from initramfs ? How would you do this if the initramfs is being loaded dynamically in the kernel (ie having the initramfs as initrd ) Because in this case, you will say root = /dev/initrd and specify 'initrd' as your 'initramfs source file' How will you specify the second initrd source? Thanks Rachita.

Hi, Here's a try at writing an initramfs HOWTO. This is basically a write-up of a number of interesting emails I collected over time. It could probably use an editor, more fact-checking and a bunch of other good things, but it should be better than nothing ;-) Daniel -------------- next part -------------- INITRAMFS HOWTO 0) What are klibc and initramfs? Initramfs is a ramfs into which

Hi I am trying to have a built in initramfs along with the traditional initrd. So I mount the initrd from the initramfs, but am facing problems in trying to run the 'linuxrc'. Following are the issues: 1. I mount the initrd from the initramfs and exceve 'linuxrc'. It starts executing linuxrc, but gives the following errors and panics: Red hat nash version 3.4.42 starting

Hi, I hope this is the right list for initramfs questions. First I noticed: with initrd I can use real-root-device and pivot_root mechanisms. with initramfs only pivot_root works. My init (or linuxrc) scripts end like this: mount -t xfs -n -o ro /dev/mapper/root /new-root umount -n /sys || true umount -n /dev || true umount -n /proc || true cd /new-root pivot_root . initrd exec chroot .

Hi, please correct me if I'm wrong: - the kernel needs enough ram for the compressed initramfs and the same files decompressed, so it can decompress the files and boot the /init on the initramfs. - if the kernel does not have enough ram, it will kernel panic. my tests were done on a server with 256 mb ram and a 80MB compressed initrd. I removed some packages and now it fits and the

systemd supports switching back to the initramfs during shutdown in order to make it easier to clean up the root file system. This is desirable in order to allow us to remove keys from RAM before rebooting, making it harder to obtain confidential information by rebooting into an environment that scrapes RAM contents. --- debian/changelog | 4 +

I converted my lvm root initrd to an initramfs by putting glibc, lvm, pivot_root, my linuxrc, etc. in my initramfs source file. I use ash compiled against klibc to run my linuxrc Unfortunately - pivot_root . initrd - complains - pivot_root: Invalid argument I suspect this may be because you can't pivot_root using a cpio initramfs root? If so, what should I do instead? Should I

On a train ride to Bruxelles, brought out my axe and directly attacked run_init(8). run_init(8) is dead, long live switch_root(8). The next run on switch_root(8) involves fdopendir, so another push for the upcoming stdio 1.6 branch. The following is boot tested with initramfs-tools, kinit(8) tests would very much be appreciated!? Michal Suchanek (1): [klibc] switch_root: Fix single file

After supermin has finished running, the initramfs files sit around occupying swappable memory but serving no further purpose. This saves a little memory, at the cost of about 1ms of extra boot time. --- init/init.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/init.c b/init/init.c index 733d66e..5ac53e9 100644 ---

This is an early userspace type question. I have an initramfs that does some root device setup, then tries to mount the real root partition and exec /sbin/init to start the real userland. It seems to do what I want, except that bootlogd hangs while mount /proc. I can't seem to figure out why. I'm booting with init=/bin/bash. bash is dynamically linked, and the appropriate libs are in

Hi, I'm using initramfs with pivot_root mechanism to mount my real root directory. I notived the gentoo halt.sh script tries to unmount everything on shutdown. That includes /initrd. The kernel seems to freeze immideatly. Do you have the same problems? Regards, Andreas CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=y

Building on the work in ff0a614bd724f6c4c6a5014a9955dc1bc028f336, this moves the capability code down into the run-init library, so that run-init can use it as well, via the new "-d" flag. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees at outflux.net> --- usr/kinit/Kbuild | 3 +-- usr/kinit/capabilities.h | 10 ++++++++++ usr/kinit/kinit.c | 6 +++---

Hello, I would like to know if initrd is here to stay, now that klibc and initramfs are ready. As the multipath-tools maintainer, I'm facing the choice to 1) put the multipath configuration tool in the initrd * dynamic binary is possible * storage hba drivers as modules loaded * no klibc limitations (no mntent for libsysfs ...) 2) put the multipath configuration tool in the initramfs *

--32u276st3Jlj2kUU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi all (two) klibc hackers! 8) Here's the stuff I've been using to build an initramfs image and run it on one of my machines. Unfortunately, the "init" script contains hard coded information about where to find the root, etc, but it should give people a working base to start from. It

initramfs-tools wants to validate the real init program before running it, as there is no way out once it has exec'd run-init. This is complicated by the increasing use of symlinks for /sbin/init and for /sbin itself. We can't simply resolve them with 'readlink -f' because any absolute symlinks will be resolved using the wrong root. Add a dry-run mode (-n option) to run-init

working fine with glibc. thanks! Andreas -- ---------------------[ Ciphire Signature ]---------------------- From: aj@ciphirelabs.com signed email body (35 characters) Date: on 19 January 2005 at 12:48:14 GMT To: klibc@zytor.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- : The message above has been secured using Ciphire Mail. : Verify this signature and download your

a bit unrelated, still I wonder: does syslinux contain an mbr? or does anyone know any app that contains an mbr and can install it, without overwriting the partition table? my experience is, that is wise to have an mbr and use the active flag to select the active partition (which might have a bootmanager installed). however every linux distribution I know installed the bootloader such as

At present the configuration items for initramfs is located in: Device drivers | Block Drivers | xxx This is maybe not the most natural place to have it. So with the following patch it is moved below "General setup", and relevant config items are collected in a file with a new home in usr/. The original reason why I looked into this is the upcoming merge of klibc and I missed a good

The following patches come from Debian and/or Ubuntu packages of klibc. Ben. Ben Hutchings (1): [klibc] run-init: Add dry-run mode Jay Vosburgh (1): [klibc] ipconfig: Use separate sockets for DHCP from multiple interfaces Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (1): [klibc] ipconfig: Set broadcast when sending DHCPREQUEST and DHCPDISCOVER YunQiang Su (1): [klibc] mips: setjmp.S: don't