Re: PID of init != 1 when initrd with pivot_root

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <20010601040627.A1335@ivan.doma>
By author:    Ivan <pivo@pobox.sk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Well, I upgraded and found pivot_root and the problem is that how do I make init
> run with PID 1. My linuxrc gets PID 7.
> 
>     1 ?        00:03:05 swapper
>     2 ?        00:00:00 keventd
>     3 ?        00:00:00 kswapd
>     4 ?        00:00:00 kreclaimd
>     5 ?        00:00:00 bdflush
>     6 ?        00:00:00 kupdated
>     7 ?        00:00:00 linuxrc
> 
> init doesn't like running with any other PID than 1. I could probably revert to
> the not so old way of doing things and exit linuxrc and let the kernel change
> root. But then I wouldn't be able to mount root over samba :-(. ( not that I
> have any samba shares :-)
> 

This is this way for backwards bug compatibility.  Use the following
command line options to make it behave properly:

	ram=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc

	-hpa
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