Bug 183333

Summary:	Allow --init= swicth to mkinitrd
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jasper O. Hartline <jasperhartline>
Component:	mkinitrd	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Jasper O. Hartline 2006-02-28 10:59:18 UTC

Description of problem:
Feature: Allow mkinitrd to use an --init= switch, to allow making a an initial
ramdisk with a specified custom init. This could be useful in building
specialized initial ramdisks, for instance, for LiveCD or DVD media or any
other embedded devices.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mkinitrd-5.0.28-1

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Comment 1 Peter Jones 2006-02-28 15:45:51 UTC

This isn't something that'll likely ever be a priority; if you've got a
non-standard environment you're booting into, then you can simply make
/sbin/init be the program you want to be init.

That being said, if you reopen this with a patch, I'm amicable to reviewing it
and eventually including it.