--- trunk/mkinitrd-magellan/mkinitrd.in	2012/04/02 11:28:14	1791
+++ trunk/mkinitrd-magellan/mkinitrd.in	2012/04/02 11:39:05	1792
@@ -754,7 +754,16 @@
 
 add_initrd 'mount -t proc proc /proc'
 add_initrd 'mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys'
-add_initrd 'mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /dev -o rw,mode=0644,size=1024'
+add_initrd "if [[ -z \$(grep '[[:space:]]/dev[[:space:]]' /proc/mounts | cut -d ' ' -f2) ]]"
+add_initrd 'then'
+add_initrd '	# many video drivers needed exec access'
+add_initrd '	fstype=ramfs'
+add_initrd '	# tmpfs was suggested by Greg Kroah-Hartman'
+add_initrd "	[[ \$(grep '[[:space:]]tmpfs' /proc/filesystems | cut -d \$'\\t' -f2) = tmpfs ]] && fstype=tmpfs"
+add_initrd '	# mount devtmpfs if supported'
+add_initrd "	[[ \$(grep '[[:space:]]devtmpfs' /proc/filesystems | cut -d \$'\\t' -f2) = devtmpfs ]] && fstype=devtmpfs"
+add_initrd '	mount -t ${fstype} dev /dev -o exec,nosuid,mode=0755,size=10M'
+add_initrd 'fi'
 
 [[ ${IMAGE_TYPE} = loopback ]] && add_initrd 'mount -t ramfs -o remount,rw /dev/ram /'