Why initramfs stops although root device is mountable and ready to use

2009-07-07 Thread Lev Olshvang
Boker Everybody, I recently experienced a strange problem: The system is based on Ubuntu kernel 2.6.28 which I compiled and built initramfs for it provided with a driver for ide disk (pata_via.ko) grub should boot this system from the root=/dev/sda1 The boot process stops on a famous

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Re: Why initramfs stops although root device is mountable and ready to use

2009-07-07 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Lev Olshvang wrote: Boker Everybody, I recently experienced a strange problem: The system is based on Ubuntu kernel 2.6.28 which I compiled and built initramfs for it provided with a driver for ide disk (pata_via.ko) grub should boot this system from the root=/dev/sda1 The boot process

Re: Why initramfs stops although root device is mountable and ready to use

2009-07-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: I do not understand this : root device is ready, but boot process is stuck ?? Simple: You either use an initramfs, and if so your initramfs should mount the real root file system itself using switch_root() or you don't use an initramfs and let the kernel mount

Re: Why initramfs stops although root device is mountable and ready to use

2009-07-07 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: I do not understand this : root device is ready, but boot process is stuck ?? Simple: You either use an initramfs, and if so your initramfs should mount the real root file system itself using switch_root() or you don't use an initramfs

Re: Why initramfs stops although root device is mountable and ready to use

2009-07-07 Thread Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Shachar Shemesh wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: I do not understand this : root device is ready, but boot process is stuck ?? Simple: You either use an initramfs, and if so your initramfs should mount the real root file system itself using switch_root() or

Re: Why initramfs stops although root device is mountable and ready to use

2009-07-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote: I think it's the other way around - if you exit from your linuxrc when running from initramfs, it'll continue on with standard boot sequence, while ending linuxrc in initrd will panic the kernel with Trying to kill PID 1 error. An initramfs exists for any