Basically an initrd is a completely different filesystem. This step in the boot process is trying to turn the filesystem from this: / = / on initrd into this: / = / on root volume /initrd = / on initrd
by doing mount /dev/whatever /new_root. then pivot_root /new_root /initrd It's like a chroot, but not quite. So your problem is that it can't remount / on the initrd to /initrd, probably because you haven't created the mount point. So it fails by not remounting the initrd....in short, it unmounts it. So yes, it's not a problem, and yes, you can ignore it, and no, it has nothing to do with reiserfs. Read linux/Documentation/initrd.txt for more details. -Heschi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 12:42 AM Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] after kernel upgrade get / mount error > --- Corey Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Make sure that ReiserFs support is compiled into the kernel > > monolithically, instead of being included as a module. > > > > e.g. you should have: > > File systems ---> > > <*> Reiserfs support > > > > instead of: > > File systems ---> > > <M> Reiserfs support > > > > also make sure that you have the correct options compiled in/excluded per the docs at > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml under "Code listing 16.6:" > > Ok so I have it compiled into the kernel from what I can see. > grep -I REI .config > CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y > # CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set > # CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set > > So I take it that the bootup messages that are posted below can safely be ignored? > > ReiserFS version 3.6.25 > Sep 29 17:57:18 deadmeat kernel: VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. > Sep 29 17:57:18 deadmeat kernel: Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed <this message> > Sep 29 17:57:18 deadmeat kernel: Unmounting old root > Sep 29 17:57:18 deadmeat kernel: Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay > Sep 29 17:57:18 deadmeat kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed > Sep 29 17:57:18 deadmeat kernel: Adding Swap: 506036k swap-space (priority -1) > > > Thanks, > JBanks > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
