humm, you need a /initrd. but i also have doubt about the
necessity of
pivot_root /sysroot /sysroot/initrd
umount /initrd/proc
will you experiment a little with the both and one by one?
jaybrata
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sumeet Madhukar Moghe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ILUG CAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Kernel panic with initrd image
> 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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