Bug#362442: initramfs-tools: A few simple options for greater flexibility

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, David Härdeman wrote:

> John Goerzen wrote:
> >There are a few things I would find helpful:
> >
> >1) If scripts in local_top could change the notion of ROOT.
> >
> >   I have a script that probes the system to find where the DFS CD is, 
> >   and then mounts it, since there is no ability to specify a custom
> >   ROOT.  Fortunately this works since the local script doesn't do
> >   error-checking.

as david indicated that will be fixed soon,
this is currently a heavy demanded feature.

> >2) If scripts in local_top could override the fstype guess.
> >
> >   The fstype reports unknown for ISO9660 filesystems.  Ideally it would
> >   suport them, but even though it doesn't, it would be fine with me if
> >   I could override the detected value.
> 
> Both 1 and 2 seems to be the same as bug 348147
> (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348147;msg=48)

same as above, but fix in fstype of klibc-utils would be better.
 
> >3) It should be documented that hooks and scripts may not contain
> >   hyphens in their names.
> 
> This looks like bug 344639 which should be fixed already.

see initramfs-tools(8): fourth paragraph of the DESCRIPTION.

regards

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maks