Re: [Rule-list] New Images using kernel 2.4.18-4

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Tuesday 21 May 2002 10:54 am, Feeley wrote:

> Possibly rdev could be used to set rootflags to "ro" ?  See man rdev.
> It's supposed to be deprecated and bootloaders are supposed to do the
> job instead.

Excellent idea. Unfortunatly, I tried that last night. :) It appears to 
not only be depreciated, but no longer seems to work. Setting rootflags 
to 0 didn't make a difference. (rdev -R /mnt/floppy/vmlinuz 0)

I think I found the answer, and I should have new images shortly. It 
appears the change is here:
address@hidden init]# ls /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-4/init
do_mounts.c  main.c  version.c

address@hidden root]# ls /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-31/init/
main.c  version.c

do_mounts.c does some new and interesting things.
Among them is mounting the initrd image read only.

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