Well, too many replies, thank you all :)I could solve my problem using strace to detect where init stops (of course I had to recompile init allowing to not be PID 1). Looking at the errors reported on strace log I could see that the problem was with the /dev/null and /dev/console doesn't exists so
On 6/16/06, Claudinei Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd created an initramfs wich mount the nfs share and do the pivot_root
(actually switch_root from busybox) but the problem is exactly at this
moment, 'cause when I try to do the switch_root and start the real init from
the nfs share, the
Hi,
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:50:12 -0700
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
pivot_root is specifically *not* allowed from an initramfs
environment. What you want to do is simply mount the new root
filesystem, chroot into it, and execute init. Something like:
cd /new_root ; exec
On 6/21/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:50:12 -0700
Hm, I'm pretty sure that it is well possible to pivot_root from an
initramfs. Isn't that the whole point of pivot_root? But you may be
right that it is not possible for NFS mounts, I never tried that
On 6/21/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4857
My final comments on that bug are based on the attached email
-1,000,000 points for not including the email...
-Richard
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Hi,
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:51:51 -0700
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My final comments on that bug are based on the attached email that I
received from Andrew Morton that made it clear that Al Viro was
opposed to pivot_root being used from an initramfs. (BTW, viro's
comments are not
On 6/21/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
chroot. OK, I definately stand currected. But I was pretty sure I once
did this from initramfs. But that was admittedly back in the 2.6.10
days, I think.
Yeah, I did it too! ;- Worked great until I tried to use
fbsplash/bootsplash, which
Hi guys,I'm not sure if it's the best place to do this question but I hope somebody could help me...well, I'm trying to make such a network diskless boot script for a amd64 machine, the target of this project is to boot an amd64 machine via network and mount nfs share as the root filesystem.
I'd
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