SUMMARY: Re: initrd; /linuxrc getpid() != 1

["Jason H. Smith" <jhs@openenterprise.biz>]

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On Saturday 26 April 2003 11:47 am, Jason H. Smith wrote:
> Hi.  This one kept me up late last night, and I still haven't solved
> it.

Well!  Ten minutes after I posted this I finally solved the problem.  I'd
been searching google, but only today did I read that /linuxrc does not
necessarily need to exec /sbin/init, as explained in
Documentation/initrd.txt.  What works is to tell the kernel that root is
already mounted ('echo 256 > /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev'), and simply
let /linuxrc exit normally.  The kernel will then call /sbin/init in its
proper role.

I still consider this a workaround, since I needed to stray from the
kernel Documentation; so if people have any input, I'm still glad to
summarize.

- --
Jason Smith
Open Enterprise Systems
Bangkok, Thailand
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