live-initramfs

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:39:46 +0100, Henning Fehrmann <henning.fehrmann at aei.mpg.de> said:

    > Actually, compiling the aufs modules is not really straight
    > forward since one needs the right combination of aufs sources and
    > kernel sources. I took the debian patched 2.6.26 kernel sources and  
    > the 0+20080719-4 aufs source.
If you are using the plain Debian kernel, you can use the Debian
package aufs-modules-2.6-486 for e.g. and do not need to compile the
aufs modules.

    > Gave up waiting for root device.  Common problems:
You can add the parameter "debug" to see more messages.

    > I would guess the problem is the missing /deb/nfs in the intrd.
In my initrd, there's no /dev at all. I think udev will create this.

I can give you access to my nfsroot (a tarball), to see if the boot process is working.

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regards Thomas