[BusyBox] strange problem with BBinit and root=

Joshua J. England jjengla at sandia.gov
Thu May 9 17:41:03 UTC 2002


I just expect that BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC would call init as '/linuxrc' no
matter what.  It does this normally, but with 'root=/dev/ram0' init gets
called as 'init' even with BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC enabled.  I would expect
it to behave consistently without any strange 'root=' caveats.

-JE

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 15:29, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Thu May 09, 2002 at 02:27:44PM -0700, Joshua J. England wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 17:19, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > > If you run with root=/dev/ram0, the kernel doesn't ever execute
> > > /linuxrc unless you explicitly add "root=/linuxrc"
> > 
> > Is there any way to disable this behavior and have it strictly adhere to
> > BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC?  I poked around a bit in init.c, but didn't find
> > where it might be looking at the root= arg.
> 
> Maybe you could tell me what you expect BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC
> to do, since what it does and what you expect it to do are
> not in sync.
> 
>  -Erik
> 
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