initrd is a method for loading a temporary file system into memory, during the process of booting the Linux kernel.
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How can I force a Ubuntu kernel to fail mounting / and drop into the initramfs rescue shell?
I am trying to customize the initramfs rescue environment and would like to force the kernel to fail mounting / and drop into the (initramfs) rescue shell, as opposed to single user mode.
How can I ...
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Ubuntu: How do the md devices get assembled at bootup?
How do the md devices get assembled at bootup in Ubuntu? Is /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf truly the relevant factor here?
My mdadm.conf is sound and I checked that while I was in the rescue CD environment. ...
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Mount /etc from disc into squashfs
I've created a gentoo-live system which should be booted from a CF-card. The whole file-system is in a squashfs. I've created a custom initrd which first mounts the CF-card and from there the squashed ...
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Kernel/grub : how override root parameter inside initrd script
I have an old kernel ( 2.4.37.9 ) and I want to override or substitute the root=XXXXX parameter to send to the kernel inside the initrd script.
I already made some attempt to do that but it seems ...
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How customize initrd via linuxrc
I have the need to use the same disk and so the same bootloader on devices with different motherboard.
Each motherboard has it's own way of mapping devices so sometime the bootdisk is mapped ad hda ...
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Getting keyboard to work in debian 6.0 in order to unlock root partition
I just installed Debian 6.0, encrypted / and now I'm trying to boot. When GRUB comes up, I select Debian, it loads the initrd and asks for the root password, however I can't enter anything, because ...
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Booting grub-2.00 with 2 initrds, crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write
So, I'm trying to split my initrd into two initrd's. There's some pretty significant scripts that run in the initrd, and we wanted to split the initrd so we could rev the just the logic or just the ...
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not all initrd.img's are born equal?
I am trying to get a Red Hat 5.8 box booting via pxe. The box is a virtual machine on ESX5.0 it has a Paravirtual SCSI Controller and VMXNET3 network driver. Now these drivers do not come default in ...
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building my own initrd, how to populate dev directory
I am trying to learn stuff about initrd. I have followed this tutorial to build my own initrd from scratch, and I installed busybox on it. Then I made an .iso from it with isolinux, so I could test it ...
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Help compiling Fedora kernel [closed]
I wan to know how to compile the kernel image which is under the CDROM:isolinux/ dir named vmlinuz and how to make the other files like initrd.img in the same directory.
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Does /init (or /linuxrc) script creates temporary device nodes in /dev?
Considering that GRUB executes following lines:
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd /initrd
On boot, how does the Linux kernel finds out about /dev/sda1 device node?
I know that ...
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Adding commands to initrd image [closed]
Whenever I enter into initrd prompt, I know that not every command is executed in that prompt. Can somebody tell me how I can add more commands support in that initrd prompt. It would be nice if you ...
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Configure vmware-tools without an initrd image?
Is it possible to run vmware-tools without an initrd? I don't know why I should use an initrd and it makes my kernel compilation more complicated. I can boot into my kernel without initrd but when I ...
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Linux ubuntu/mint livecd user-home customization
I'm trying to customize Linux Mint livecd with these instruction (uck doesn't work for me).
What I want is to have more icons at its livecd user (/home/mint/Desktop) but I can't find /home/mint on ...
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Create Logical Volume Snapshot at boot and before mount
I'm using Kubuntu 11.10 and before I upgrade to 12.04, I want to make snapshots of my filesystems. Coming to think of that, I realized that it can be very useful to create snapshots of logical volumes ...
