Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.4.19pre8aa3 | From | Juan Quintela <> | Date | 16 May 2002 11:27:37 +0200 |
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>>>>> "andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:
Hi
andrea> I'm not using the full blown initrd of most distros that is aware of the andrea> mistery of life and of all the kernel bugs out there too, my own dumb andrea> linuxrc just says:
andrea> echo hello world
andrea> and then returns, and ext3 gets mounted as ext2 and that's a kernel bug, andrea> all other fs gets mounted correctly with my initrd, only ext3 gone wrong andrea> until I fixed it.
>> --- 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.
andrea> both lines are completly superflous, very misleading as well. I andrea> recommend to drop such two lines from all the full blown bug-aware andrea> linuxrc out there (of course after you apply the ordering fix to the andrea> kernel).
I am missing something, or how do you pass the notail option to your reiserfs rootfs when the initrd is ext2.
Later, Juan.
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