Re: chroot in /usr and initrd booting
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Andreas Bombe wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 08:45:13PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:32:57AM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote:
> > > In short, when booting an initrd, after the pivot_root a chroot has to
> > > be done into the new root. If /usr is on a separate partition, chroot
> > > isn't available, boot fails.
> >
> > With what kernels must you do a chroot after pivot_root? On systems
> > where I'm using pivot_root + Linux 2.4.18, I only have to do 'cd /'.
AFAIK the i386 version still has ext2 in the kernel and ext3 as a module
with forces you to do something like pivot_root if you want to have a
ext3 rootfs.
> Anyway, can you umount the initrd if you only did a 'cd /'?
AFAIK not.
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