[lug] need init parameter

[Tim Klein]

On Thursday 19 July 2001 09:51 pm, D. Stimits wrote:
> I'm trying to find out if there is a way, during boot, at the boot
> prompt when it is possible to specify kernel and other parameters, the
> following...
> ...I am able to specify the root partition, and tons of kernel
> parameters, but I must find a way to *also* specify root filesystem
> *type*. Yup, I got it working on my rescue, to a point, but it is only
> able to find and mount a root system that is ext2. I really need to
> specify, depending on circumstances, a root system of type xfs or
> iso9660. It reminds me of a fingernail scraping across a chalk board...I
> can tell it almost anything, but it demands ext2. Is this even possible
> to specify an initial root filesystem of type that is not ext2?
>
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

Well, I don't really know the answer to  your question, but I do know this.  
I am building a LFS (Linux From Scratch, cool stuff by the way. 
www.linuxfromscratch.org) system, and the root file system for that is 
ReiserFS.  I had to compile reiserfs into the kernel, of course ( if the 
module is on the disk, and i need the module to access the disk, hmmm ... 
Kernel PANIC! ).  Aside from that, the kernel just figures it out, I didn't 
tell it anything about what kind of file system root is on.  So hmmm?  I 
could reboot, if you would like, and see if I notice anything at boot up that 
might be interesting or helpful (I am writing this message from the machine 
I would need to reboot, so I can't do it right now).

HTH, Tim

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