Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:29:12 -0700 | From | Jay Lan <> | Subject | [patch 2.6.12] Improper initrd failure message at boot time |
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On system boot up, there was an failure reported to boot.msg:
<5>Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
According to initrd(4) man page, step #7 of BOOT-UP OPERATION is described as below: 7. If the normal root file has directory /initrd, device /dev/ram0 is moved from / to /initrd. Otherwise if directory /initrd does not exist device /dev/ram0 is unmounted.
We got service calls from customers concerning about this failure message at boot time. Many systems do not have /initrd and thus the message can be changed in the case of non-existing /initrd so that it does not sound like a failure of the system.
Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Index: linux/init/do_mounts_initrd.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/init/do_mounts_initrd.c 2005-06-17 12:48:29.000000000 -0700 +++ linux/init/do_mounts_initrd.c 2005-06-29 16:48:21.512229871 -0700 @@ -86,7 +86,10 @@ static void __init handle_initrd(void) printk("okay\n"); else { int fd = sys_open("/dev/root.old", O_RDWR, 0); - printk("failed\n"); + if (error == -ENOENT) + printk("/initrd does not exist. Ignored.\n"); + else + printk("failed\n"); printk(KERN_NOTICE "Unmounting old root\n"); sys_umount("/old", MNT_DETACH); printk(KERN_NOTICE "Trying to free ramdisk memory ... "); | |