[BusyBox] urgent help at change_root inside of initrd

Giulio Orsero giulioo at pobox.com
Fri Feb 15 04:37:04 UTC 2002


On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:52:47 +0100, Stephan Linz <linz at MAZeT.de> wrote:


>BIOS boots from first master IDE device (LILO). LILO loads kernel and initrd 
>image. Kernel mounts initrd image as first root FS in ramdisk(/dev/ram0); in 
>lilo.conf is standing: append="root=/dev/ram init=/linuxrc rw". Initrd image 
>covers a small busybox, /linuxrc is a shellscript and has to mount /dev/hda1, 
>extract the real root FS from a tarball to /dev/ram1, unmount /dev/hda1 and 

Sorry not to answer directly, but why don't you put the tarball in a fs
image and load that directly through initrd (without the intermediate step)?

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giulioo at pobox.com



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