On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 01:02, Jaybrata Bhattacharyya wrote:
> can you send me the startup script (linuxrc??) of the initrd.img along
> with its full (sub)directory listing? i can try.....
Well, u gave me a great hint JB. My linuxrc file happens to contain the following
conclusive lines.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
pivot_root /sysroot /sysroot/initrd
umount /initrd/proc
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is where the exceptions were being thrown. A little RTFM about
pivot_root and initrd told me that **pivot_root <new_root> <put_old>**
moves the root file system of the current process to the directory
put_old and makes new_root the new root file system.
Also if directory /initrd does not exist on the normal root
file‐system and any processes remain running from /dev/ram0 when
/linuxrc exits, the behavior of the kernel is UNSPECIFIED.
So the no-brainer solution to the problem seemed to be the obvious --
create /initrd on the root file system with contents same as my initrd
image. That did the trick and my system boots up as usual. What is still
very strange is the fact that i faced this problem in the first place,
considering that my system ran like greased lightning, just before this
happened.
Neways thnx for makin my brainz lite up like that!!
> jaybrata
/Sumeet
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