When does the linuxrc script execute?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Sep 20 17:23:51 EST 2001


Hi,

> could you be more specific - your system can't really boot without /linuxrc,
> because shell is called in it.

You are wrong. It depends on the kernel configuration and some other things.

> BTW. linuxrc is executed when kernel preparing namespace, that is after all
> initializations, preparing devices... it is in 'init' thread.

If you run in a "standalone shell" environment, there is nothing that will
even bother to check if a /linuxrc exists.

Wolfgang Denk


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