Re: PID of init != 1 when initrd with pivot_root
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
31 May 2001 21:11:14 -0700
Followup to: <20010601040627.A1335@ivan.doma>
By author: Ivan <pivo@pobox.sk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Well, I upgraded and found pivot_root and the problem is that how do I make init
> run with PID 1. My linuxrc gets PID 7.
>
> 1 ? 00:03:05 swapper
> 2 ? 00:00:00 keventd
> 3 ? 00:00:00 kswapd
> 4 ? 00:00:00 kreclaimd
> 5 ? 00:00:00 bdflush
> 6 ? 00:00:00 kupdated
> 7 ? 00:00:00 linuxrc
>
> init doesn't like running with any other PID than 1. I could probably revert to
> the not so old way of doing things and exit linuxrc and let the kernel change
> root. But then I wouldn't be able to mount root over samba :-(. ( not that I
> have any samba shares :-)
>
This is this way for backwards bug compatibility. Use the following
command line options to make it behave properly:
ram=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc
-hpa
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