Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 May 2002 14:56:42 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.19pre8aa3 |
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On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:36:30AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 04:32:38AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:06:51PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > --- snip from linuxrc ---- > > > mount --ro -t $rootfs $rootdev /sysroot > > > pivot_root /sysroot /sysroot/initrd > > > ------ > > > > > > This way you can specify both the root fs and - if wanted - > > > special mount options to the root fs. Then you pivot_root(2) > > > to move the root fs to / and the (old) initrd to /initrd. > > > > both lines are completly superflous, very misleading as well. I > > recommend to drop such two lines from all the full blown bug-aware > > linuxrc out there (of course after you apply the ordering fix to the > > kernel). > > Have you thought about reading Documentation/initrd.txt and following > the described method? (last modified December 2000 according to the > comments and the mtime on the file).
I didn't noticed the API changed in the docs, so my suggestion of yesterday to remove such two lines is wrong sorry. I was only reading the kernel code and I was using my own old debugging initrd were I could reproduce the ext3 problem. Interestingly there's no way to guess the new API by only reading the kernel code like I was doing.
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