Re: pivot_root and initrd kernel panic woes

[Erik Andersen]

On Mon Dec 17, 2001 at 10:38:51AM -0800, Torrey Hoffman wrote:
> 
> and then the system just hangs.  When it works, the messages are
> identical up to that point but continue...
> 
> init started:  BusyBox v0.51 (2001.04.25-13:32+0000) multi-call binary
> (etc.)

Any particular reason you are using a version of busybox that is 
quite old?  You really should get a newer release -- I've fixed a 
lot of bugs since then.

> I have a complete set of files and dev nodes for the initrd in 
> ./rootfs. They add up to about 3 MB.  Nothing too unusual - busybox, 
> glibc 2.1.3, etc.
> 
> My build system kernel is 2.4.16, has the standard 4 MB ramdisk, 
> and I use the following script to create the initrd:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> rm -rf initrd.gz
> umount /dev/ram
> mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram 4000
> mount -t ext2 /dev/ram /mnt/ramdisk
> cp -a rootfs/* /mnt/ramdisk
> umount /dev/ram
> dd if=/dev/ram bs=1k count=4000 of=initrd
> gzip initrd

Can you sucessfully chroot into your rootfs dir?

 -Erik

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