Re: 2.4.19pre8aa3

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 15 May 2002 23:42:24 -0300 (BRT)


On Thu, 16 May 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> I'm not using the full blown initrd of most distros that is aware of the

Then I guess we found the problem. ;)

> > --- snip from linuxrc ----
> > mount --ro -t $rootfs $rootdev /sysroot
> > pivot_root /sysroot /sysroot/initrd
> > ------

> both lines are completly superflous, very misleading as well. I
> recommend to drop such two lines from all the full blown bug-aware
> linuxrc out there (of course after you apply the ordering fix to the
> kernel).

Personally I hope the special initrd code gets moved from
kernelspace into userspace.

regards,

Rik

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