Re: udev in initrd

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 16:29 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:05:13PM +0200, Thomas Woerner wrote:
> > 4) start udev, use udevsend as hotplug
> 
> What do you do to "start udev"?  Run udevstart?

Reading the code, yes :)

> Are you looking into making a initramfs instead of a initrd for the next
> FC3 release?

I've yet to be convinced of initramfs really being better...  having to
shove your initial filesystem (whatever you want to call it :) at the
end of the kernel binary image is a major pain for usability.  It's
actually one of my biggest gripes about dealing with the iSeries
platform is that you have to make the combined kernel + initrd blob
which is fairly non-intuitive to a user and makes it really hard to
debug what's going on since you don't have a discrete file that you can
ask the user to send you.

Jeremy