On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 19:37 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > Dallas Clement wrote: > > > I'm trying to determine which device I booted Linux from at run-time. > > > I'd like to obtain the boot device's major/minor numbers or at least > > > it's name while executing an init script from initramfs. > > why? >
I'm trying to run a custom Linux install script from initramfs. I want to avoid the possibility of mistakenly installing Linux over the top of my boot device. :) Hence, needing to know with certainty which device I booted Linux from. I'm trying to boot Linux from a USB drive on a system that may have other USB, IDE, SCSI drives present, each of which could possibly have GRUB/Linux already installed. Ideally I would like to determine the root device without ever having mounted any other devices. If I know which is the boot device, I can present a menu of choices excluding the boot device on which Linux can be installed which would involve partitioning, formatting, and copying files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
