initrd broken???

initrd broken???

[Jeff Chua]

I'm posting this hoping that someone will fix this soon ...

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Jeff Chua wrote:

> freeram /dev/ram0
> File freeram.c: Line 41: ioctl /dev/ram0: Error 16: Device or resource
busy

this should not happen.

> I cannot free the old initrd root partition under 2.4.0-testx, but it
works
> fine on 2.2.17.

hmm, as initrd now is used by almost evry Linux distributor, there for
sure will be a fix sooner or later if it is broken ;-)
... just wait a bit or complain on linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Hans
<lermen@fgan.de>


original message ...


Any chance to fix the following bug in 2.4.x

dmesg (from bootup message) ...
change_root: old root has d_count=3

freeram /dev/ram0
File freeram.c: Line 41: ioctl /dev/ram0: Error 16: Device or resource busy

I cannot free the old initrd root partition under 2.4.0-testx, but it works
fine on 2.2.17. I used loadlin to boot up
ramdisk initrd first, load the ide driver, and boot up the real linux.

I hope you guys are still the one maintaining initrd, if not, please point
me to someone who can help,
or send me a few lines as to how I can fix this.


Thanks,
Jeff
[ jchua@fedex.com ]

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