On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:01:03AM +1000, John Hedge wrote: > Hi, > > I've just spent the weekend loading Ubuntu on my Thinkpad 570E. > > I get this error: > > pivot_root: No such file or directory > /sbin/init: 424: cannot open dev/console: No such file > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > > The weird thing is that after unfreezing the TP by pulling the battery > and power lead the thing boots ok on the next try. When this happens > Ubuntu is very cool. > > Googling and the man page hasn't helped me understand what pivot_root > does (some kind of chroot?). from memeory, pivot_root is used by the scripts in initrd. The initrd loads up any modules that are need to load the root partition it then mounts the partion and then pivot_roots to it.
check this out try this mkdir /tmp/loop cp /boot/initrd (what ever the current one is) /tmp/initrd.gz gzip -d /tmp/initrd.gz mount -o loop /tmp/initrd /mnt/loop cd /tmp/loop less linuxrc ( I think this is the one) Have fun > > Can anyone help? > > TIA > > John > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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