On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 06:10:17PM -0400, Jeff Bailey wrote: > Le jeudi 06 octobre 2005 à 18:07 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > > initrd-tool can do either ext2 or cramfs, but not really initramfs, altough > > i > > believe you can override it with the right invocation to cpio used with the > > right option of initrd-tools. it defaults to ext2 on 2.4 kernels and cramfs > > on > > 2.6 ones, i believe. > > > > initramfs-tools and yaird default to initramfs format, but could probably > > generate cramfs or ext2 just as well. > > > And initrd requires pivot_root to chain to the root system. On an > initramfs, a pivot_root will crash it. You need to do a move mount
Oh didn't know. How do you do the move-mount thingy ? Should maybe pivot_root be adapted to know about the initramfs situation ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
