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Re: Booting Linux using AHA2940UW (no IDE), with aic7xxx as modu
On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Udi Finkelstein wrote:
> This is the standard RedHat setup. I believe it allows you to do a few things:
> 1. Doing fsck on the root partition (I don't think you can fsck a partition
> while it's mounted, right?)
Wrong. The fsck command is run with the root fs mounted ro, it is
remounted rw after that (iff there is no fsck problem). RTFM mount,
option: -o remount. Remember this as you'll use it when you screw your
root fs badly and get to the single-user shell prompt after boot ;)
> 2. To have an initial file system before the module is loaded (??! that's what
> I want, right?)
Huh ? There is no connection between a file system and a module. Booting
from a network will funnel modules through without any kind of filesystem
(after the kernel which also gets there through the net).
During boot many things work in different ways than during normal
operation. If you want to learn something, unpack the kernel sources and
enter linux/driver/block/ramdisk.c ;)
Peter