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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pivotroot does not work with initramfs
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:49:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031119234916.GB23599@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031116170438.GA4466@suse.de>

On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:04:38PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> I cant remount the root filesystem rw, mounting proc doesnt work either,
> mount hangs, no userinput possible. System is a old powermac.
> It seems pivotroot is either broken, or I dont use it correctly.

See the klibc mailing list for examples of people using initramfs and
pivotroot properly together.  They have done it successfully.

good luck,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-19 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-16 17:04 pivotroot does not work with initramfs Olaf Hering
2003-11-19 23:49 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-11-22 16:46 ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-22 20:48   ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-22 21:50     ` viro
2003-11-25 20:02       ` Olaf Hering

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