Jan Engelhardt schrieb: > On Jun 24 2007 23:27, Salvatore De Paolis wrote: >> i built the kernel with a busybox initramfs which runs from a usb stick. >> While >> i boot i need to mount the real root and i'm using pivot_root. >> Pivot_root . old-root return to me an "Invalid argument" error and googling i >> found here http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/10/8/17 that pivot_root should be >> avoided. >> I want to ask now what i should do to switch to a real root? > > use run-init from klibc?
However be aware of the limitation of run-init: It only works for direct childs of root directory /mnt/newroot won't work /newroot should work ;-) Good luck, Arnd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/