Re: pivot_root & linuxrc problem

Mike Galbraith
2001-03-16T08:55:31Z

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Russell King wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:11:55PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Art Boulatov wrote:
> >
> > > How can I "exec /sbin/init" from "/linuxrc", whatever it is,
> > > if "linuxrc" does not get PID=1?
> > >
> > > Actually, why does NOT "linuxrc" get PID=1?
> >
> > That's the question.. the first task started gets pid=1, and when
> > that is true, exec /sbin/init has no problem. What else is your
> > system starting?.. it must be starting something.
>
> Linux always forks from PID1 before executing /linuxrc automagically.
> Check init/main.c.

Aha.. so that's it. I've never been able to get /linuxrc to execute
automagically. I wonder why /linuxrc executes on Art's system, but
not on mine. I can call it whatever I want and it doesn't run unless
I explicitly start it with init=whatever.

If it does execute though, that explains init complaining.. pid is
going to be whatever comes after the last thread started (would be
8 here). It looks like you're only supposed to do setup things in
magic filename /linuxrc and not exec /sbin/init from there.

In any case, it looks like renaming linuxrc to whatever.sh and booting
with init=/whatever.sh instead will likely make init happy.

-Mike