Liberty Young said:
> I'm having trouble making a bootable, working initrd image
>
> Right now, I can get everything working just fine by:
>
> making an initrd image using busybox and my own /linuxrc script. The
> script inserts some USB modules, pivot_root's to a USB thumbdrive, and
> then exec chroot . sbin/init <dev/console >dev/console
>
> bootloader boots up, and passes to the kernel the arguments
> root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc
>
>
> This works...however, since linuxrc isn't being exited and passing
> control to the thumb-driver's sbin/init, the memory never gets freed!
>
> I am unable to pass to the kernel
> "initrd=initrd.gz", and have it find the ramdisk's /linuxrc, do the
> magic, and then exit 0, which _should_ have the kernel invoke the new
> root's sbin/init.
>
> Anybody have any ideas?!?
Liberty,
I, for one, was taken aback by your direct dive into technical details.
Suddenly we were discussing a USB thumbdrive! Could you perhaps give a
little higher view as an introduction to the details? What is the overall
goal? What is the platform and evironment?
Alan
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