Re: pivot_root and initrd kernel panic woes

vda (vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua)
Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:53:05 -0200


On Thursday 13 December 2001 11:22, 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 :-)
>
> I have a report of romfs initrd with same symptoms. ext2 initrd OTOH
> boots fine.

You can dl and try to load this minix initrd from
http://port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua/linux/vda/minix.gz

If you can do that, please tell me exact kernel version, what bootloader you
use and send your .config, I'll try it here.

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vda
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