Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262328AbTFTOdh (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:33:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262331AbTFTOdh (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:33:37 -0400 Received: from camus.xss.co.at ([194.152.162.19]:59154 "EHLO camus.xss.co.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262328AbTFTOdg (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:33:36 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF31E87.6050804@xss.co.at> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:47:35 +0200 From: Andreas Haumer Organization: xS+S User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tobias Reinhard CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problem unmounting initrd-romfs in 2.4.21 References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1642 Lines: 53 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Tobias Reinhard wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm booting up with a initrd in a romfs. After loading all needed > modules and pivoting root I unmount the initrd and flush the used > buffers. > > Since I updated to 2.4.21 I can't unmount the initrd - it says it's > busy, but it's no (or at least lsof does say so). > > I use kernel 2.4.21 with /drivers/Makefile , /drivers/ide and > /include/linux/ide.h from ac1 to reenable ide-modules. > > Anyone know the problem? > Hm, just a guess: do you have devfs mounted to /dev on the initial ramdisk (probably automounted by the kernel, with config option CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y)? Check the output of "mount", it'll show you if there's still something mounted under the "old" root. We use initrd + devfs for ages now (we even use romfs for initrd like you do), and it works fine with 2.4.21 too. HTH - - andreas - -- Andreas Haumer | mailto:andreas@xss.co.at *x Software + Systeme | http://www.xss.co.at/ Karmarschgasse 51/2/20 | Tel: +43-1-6060114-0 A-1100 Vienna, Austria | Fax: +43-1-6060114-71 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+8x6CxJmyeGcXPhERAs7RAKCWiPn2qnLvI9v6GdVj3djPeBcPvQCeP1X2 Fd/GfnFm7tWiCGpp6A6zO6c= =V9df -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/