pivot_root from non-interactive script

Ralph Jones (ralph.jones@altavista.com)
18 Jun 2001 06:03:02 -0700


Greetings,

I have followed the instructions given in Documentation/initrd.txt with regard to pivot_root, but am unable to unmount the filesystem, when everything is called from a non-interactive script.

ie. When I set a link from linuxrc to /bin/ash and then manually go through the commands in the shell script, I am able to unmount the old initrd filesystem. However, when linuxrc is a shell script containing the same commands, I am unable to umount the old initrd fs. I get instead: "Device or resource busy".

The contents of my linuxrc script are as follows:
--------------------
#!/bin/ash
export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

cd /
mkdir /new
mount -t shm /dev/shm /new
cp -pdR * new

cd new
pivot_root . initrd

cd /
exec chroot . /bin/ash <dev/console > dev/console 2>&1
-------------
ash is a static binary. chroot, mount and pivot_root are from busybox.

- Ralph Jones

Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping!
http://www.shopping.altavista.com
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/