RE: Re: [Familiar] Familiar 0.5pre + Intimate problem

The magic of the pivot_root is _when it runs.

We have to do the pivot_root before we start init, or we have multiple
processes running with locks on the old root filesystem, and are unable to
unmount it (and all the ksymoops get written there, and jffs2 fills up etc).

Jim


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Seth Golub
Sent: 04 October 2001 20:48
To: Hietaniemi Jarkko (NRC/Boston)
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: [Intimate] Re: [Familiar] Familiar 0.5pre + Intimate problem



"Hietaniemi Jarkko (NRC/Boston)" <[email protected]> writes:

> the microdrive isn't ready "early enough"?

I have the same problem, and that was my assessment too.

As far as I can tell, the only real magic of booting Intimate is the
pivot_root, and it doesn't seem all that important to do it very
early, as long as the services we launch and the modules we load are
duplicated in our Intimate installations.

If PCMCIA isn't ready until /etc/init.d/pcmcia runs, then /linuxrc
isn't the best place to switch over to Intimate.  Maybe instead we
should do it from a script in /etc/init.d.