Re: 2.6.13, experimental and 2.6.14-rc ...

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

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