From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Kernel modules in initrd Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:53:05 +0100 Message-ID: <20180222215305.GA10263@jurong> References: <20180222211707.GB9758@jurong> <20180222223403.1c3773a5@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37754) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eoyne-0007qy-MG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:53:11 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eoynd-00019A-Vl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:53:10 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a0c:e300::1]:57588) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eoynd-00016W-O4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:53:09 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180222223403.1c3773a5@scratchpost.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello Danny, On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:34:03PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > When you booted from the USB key the system DIDN'T need mptsas to find > ITS root filesystem. So it booted fine and in the end of it all you had > a working GNU Linux, with udev. > > Then udev saw the hard disk and udev went and loaded the kernel > module (from the root filesystem, not from the initrd), as it was > supposed to do. thanks for the explanations, I agree with your analysis. So the patch you propose looks good to me. Andreas