Re: Staccali-install notes

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On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 15:13 -0600, Jeffrey Law wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 14:43 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> 
> > > When staccali-install wants to create an initrd, it runs mkinitrd, which
> > > in turn reads /etc/fstab to determine characteristics of the root
> > > filesystem.  More likely than not /etc/fstab is going to be totally
> > > inappropriate.  Instead staccali should conjure up its own fstab for
> > > use by mkinitrd (we know where the root filesystem will be, so this
> > > should be trivial).
> > 
> > 	Yeah, this goes back to the mail I sent out a while back about "what to
> > do with an fstab on an image shared between diskless and cached
> > clients".
> Attached is the trivial code to pass --rootdev and --rootfs to mkinitrd
> which avoids the fstab issue completely for staccali-install.

	Looks good, please do go ahead and commit.

Thanks,
Mark.


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