[klibc] lvm initrd -> initramfs

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 11:32 -0700, ms419 at freezone.co.uk wrote:

Hi,

> I converted my lvm root initrd to an initramfs by putting glibc, lvm, 
> pivot_root, my linuxrc, etc. in my initramfs source file. I use ash 
> compiled against klibc to run my linuxrc
> 
> Unfortunately -
> 
> 
> pivot_root . initrd
> 
> 
> - complains -
> 
> 
> pivot_root: Invalid argument
> 
> 
> I suspect this may be because you can't pivot_root using a cpio 
> initramfs root?
> 
> If so, what should I do instead? Should I still mount my lvm root 
> partition as I do currently? Should I call kinit?
> 

I just use run-init from klibc:

---- snip -----
# Other setup and all else before I can mount root before
# this line ...

# Mount /root
mount -t ext3 /dev/nsw1p2 /rootfs

# The rc-scripts will take care of this
umount /sys

init="/sbin/init"

for x in $(cat /proc/cmdline)
do
        case "${x}" in
        init=*)
                # Set $init to whatever the user specified ...
                eval ${x}
                ;;
        esac
done

# The rc-scripts will take care of this
umount /proc

# Right, pivot and give control to real init
exec run-init /rootfs "${init}" "$@"
-----

Something like above over here.


Regards,

-- 
Martin Schlemmer

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