can pivot_root work?
<[email protected]> Mon, 21 Jul 103 17:29:41 -0400 (EDT)
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.tomsrtbt |
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Has anyone gotten pivot_root and/or a 2.4 kernel to work? To make a long story somewhat short, I'm interested in using tomsrtbt as the basis for a network installation floppy. Essentially I want to boot, prompt for some info/figure some stuff out, mount up an nfs root containing my installation scripts, environment, etc., pivot_root to that and continue. The first problem I ran in to was pivot_root not being available. That was easy, I rebuilt busybox to include pivot_root. Then I realized the version of the kernel tomsrtbt includes doesn't support pivot_root, so I tried to upgrade to a 2.4 kernel. This is where I ran in to all sorts of problems. I can create the floppy and boot the kernel ok, but it can't mount up the ram disk as root and continue (errors of the VFS: Unable to mount root.. variety). I tried the suggestions on the Wiki for using a loopback device and that didn't seem to help (or even work :( ). Any pointers greatly appreciated.. Thanks!