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Re: [debian-knoppix] /dev/root.old is mounted on /initrd



Hi Mipooh,

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:27:24 +0200, Mipooh wrote:

> /dev/root.old is mounted on /initrd 
> 
> I found the same in my installation. I was thinking, this came from an old or 
> interrupted installation.

No, this behaviour is normal.
During boot process, the kernel mounts the initial ramdisk first, to
get ext3/reiser/xfs module loaded and to pivot_root to the real
root partition.

The pivot_root system call changes the root filesystem to a mounted
partition and moves the old root filesystem (the ramdisk) to a
specified mount point (/initrd).

> As at the same time one of my partitions is not recognized, I thought about 
> two dependend mistakes.?

No, these things are not related.

bye,
  Chris
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