Re: Fwd: Bug#164498: mkinitrd doesn't seem to create the correct initrd image

2002-10-14 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 07:14:34AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > My question is, why go to great trouble to store and then change > real-root-dev. Why can't all of the meat of the action just happen in > linuxrc and then pivot_root to the original root? Because 2.4.19 broke automatic module

Fwd: Bug#164498: mkinitrd doesn't seem to create the correct initrd image

2002-10-13 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am quite puzzled by the structure of the resulting initrd image. If I have understood what is happening (and I must admit I am struggling) the following steps occur 1) the kernel calls linuxrc to run 2) linuxrc saves the contents of real-root-d