Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:54:34 +0100 (CET) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: pivot_root & linuxrc problem |
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0103160822350.1057-100000@mikeg.weiden.de> you wrote: > > Aha.. so that's it. I've never been able to get /linuxrc to execute > > automagically. I wonder why /linuxrc executes on Art's system, but > > not on mine. I can call it whatever I want and it doesn't run unless > > I explicitly start it with init=whatever. > > linuxrc is executed iff: > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is defined > you actually have a initrd mounted > /dev/console can be found and opened > a executable "/linuxrc" is in the ramdisk
<g> There's one more important condition to add to this iff list.
ROOT_DEV as set at kbuild or boot time may not be identical with the device used as a container for the initrd image.
Greetings from bash. My pid is 8 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? SW 0:05 (swapper) 2 ? SW 0:00 (keventd) 3 ? SW 0:00 (kapm-idled) 4 ? SW 0:00 (kswapd) 5 ? SW 0:00 (kreclaimd) 6 ? SW 0:00 (bdflush) 7 ? SW 0:00 (kupdate) 8 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /linuxrc 11 ? R 0:00 /bin/ps ax /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /test ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0
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