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From: "James Hayhurst" <herrdoktor@email.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Cannot unmount initrd
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:57:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020822005730.9319.qmail@email.com> (raw)

I'm making a boot CD and having problems unmounting and freeing the initrd after pivoting to a different root.  First off, for some reaosn it seems that /linuxrc is not being executed.  Just to test this, I have it as a simple script (with execute permissions) printing something to the screen and it never printed....at boot it just seems to go to /sbin/init on the initrd image.  After pivoting to a cramfs root, I cannot unmount /initrd as it says that the device or resource is busy.  Checking out /proc, it looks like [keventd], [ksoftirqd_CPU0], [kswapd] and [kupdated] are holding onto open fd from /initrd, namely /initrd/dev/console.  Strangely though, some of the fd's they're holding are the  "normal" /dev/console.

My /sbin/init on the initrd script looks something like:

#I have the new root mount on /new_root/root.cfs and all directories are set up to pivot
cd /new_root
pivot_root . initrd
export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin
echo Done pivoting

umount /initrd/proc
umount /initrd/devfs
umount /initrd

exec chroot . sbin/startup < dev/console > dev/console 2> dev/console

Should i unmount /proc and /devfs before I pivot?  Any suggestions would be wonderful!

Cheers,
James

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             reply	other threads:[~2002-08-22  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-22  0:57 James Hayhurst [this message]
2002-08-22  8:59 ` Cannot unmount initrd Richard Zidlicky

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