Re: pivot_root and initrd kernel panic woes

From: Mike Galbraith (mikeg@wen-online.de)
Date: Sat Dec 15 2001 - 07:14:49 EST


On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, vda wrote:

> On Thursday 13 December 2001 06:19, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, vda wrote:
> > > BTW, don't go for 2.4x, x>10. initrd is broken there and is still
> > > unfixed.
> >
> > Bullshit.
>
> I have a slackware initrd (minix) which is booting fine with 2.4.10
> but fails to boot with 2.4.12 and later (same .config, same bootloader,
> same hardware, same AC voltage in the wall outlet, time of day differs by
> 1 minute), so it might be true :-)

Hmm.. works here with 2.5.1-pre8.

        -Mike
...
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 12288K size 1024 blocksize
...
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 5161k freed
MINIX-fs: mounting unchecked file system, running fsck is recommended.
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed

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