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To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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From: Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>
Date: 16 May 2002 11:27:37 +0200
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>>>>> "andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:

Hi

andrea> I'm not using the full blown initrd of most distros that is aware of the
andrea> mistery of life and of all the kernel bugs out there too, my own dumb
andrea> linuxrc just says:

andrea> echo hello world

andrea> and then returns, and ext3 gets mounted as ext2 and that's a kernel bug,
andrea> all other fs gets mounted correctly with my initrd, only ext3 gone wrong
andrea> until I fixed it.

>> --- snip from linuxrc ----
>> mount --ro -t $rootfs $rootdev /sysroot
>> pivot_root /sysroot /sysroot/initrd
>> ------
>> 
>> This way you can specify both the root fs and - if wanted -
>> special mount options to the root fs. Then you pivot_root(2)
>> to move the root fs to / and the (old) initrd to /initrd.

andrea> both lines are completly superflous, very misleading as well. I
andrea> recommend to drop such two lines from all the full blown bug-aware
andrea> linuxrc out there (of course after you apply the ordering fix to the
andrea> kernel).

I am missing something, or how do you pass the notail option to your
reiserfs rootfs when the initrd is ext2.


Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy