Package: busybox Version: 1:1.14.2-2 Severity: normal Hi,
please add the switch_root command to Debians busybox that the linux Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt describes. Since it is impossible to get rid of libc6 in the initramfs I looked into getting rid of klibc instead. But that also is practically impossible. The rootfs used by initramfs does not allow for mount --bind/--move and therefore the old pivot_root way of switching from initrd to real root does not work. pivot_root always returns an error. The new way involves deleting all files in the rootfs and then mounting the real root to / and exec-ing /sbin/init. Which is basically impossible to do with a shell script. The klibc provides a run_init binary to do this but eglibc has no equivalent. Busybox is supposed to have a switch_root command but under Debian it does not. So you are left with needing run_init + klibc or leaving cruft being in the rootfs and wasting the memory it takes up. MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (499, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.6-xen-2010.02.18 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages busybox depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib busybox recommends no packages. busybox suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org