Re: kernel cmdline: root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 "fallback"?

From: Tomasz Chmielewski
Date: Wed Jan 17 2007 - 09:10:45 EST


Jan Engelhardt wrote:
The device is pretty small and has no keyboard, video card etc., so if it ever
happens to break (can be a disk failure, but also operator who messed with
startup scripts), it has to be opened (warranty!).

These all unpleasant tasks could be avoided if it was possible to have a
"fallback" device. For example, consider this hypothetical command line:

root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1

You should use initramfs to achieve that.

All right.
I see that initramfs is attached to the kernel itself.

So it leaves me only a question: will I fit all tools into 300 kB (considering I'll use uClibc and busybox)?


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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