that the file system driver will replay the journal at
mount-time in case of an unclean shutdown. For ext3 at least
this is *much* faster.
svn path=/nixos/branches/fix-style/; revision=14175
on my system when booting Linux 2.6.27, ide-generic fails with
"Cannot allocate memory" (maybe because ata_piix already claimed the
IDE devices?).
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=13147
the device to mount appears. This wasn't previously possible
because of root devices specified by label (mounted via "mount
LABEL=foo ..."), but now we use /dev/disk/by-label so we can easily
test whether the device already exists.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=12562
use /dev/disk/by-{label,id,...} names for the root FS.
* Kill udevd at the end of stage 1. Don't know how it got killed
previously...
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=12560
This makes the initrd a few megabytes smaller.
* Use run-init from klibc to delete everything in the initrd ramfs
prior to switching to the real root FS.
* Removed the stage2Init argument.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=12544
USB, some SCSI controllers) in the initrd for mounting the CD.
* Add nix-hardware-scan to the system.
* Upstart: don't use the -v flag.
* Include the NixOS version in the ISO image filename.
* Include testdisk and ms-sys in the CD.
* Some bugfixes in the installer.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=10556
appear writable (though all writes go to a tmpfs). This allows you
to run Nix operations on the Live CD. However, we're not quite
there yet since the CD doesn't have a valid Nix database. So for
instance a garbage collect will cause everything to be deleted,
hanging the system.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=10276
command line):
- debug1devices: drop into a shell after modules have been load and
device nodes have been created.
- debug1mounts: drop into a shell after file systems have been
mounted.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=8804
a "media" file since SCSI CD-ROM drives don't have it (and
supposedly it's going away in IDE too).
* Create the device node automatically from the "dev" file in
/sys/block/$bla.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=7473
