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From: Erik van Konijnenburg <ekonijn@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] yaird, a mkinitrd based on hotplug concepts
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:13:55 +0000 (UTC)
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Andreas Jellinghaus <aj <at> dungeon.inka.de> writes:
> it looks like yaird does use pivot_root.
> however pivot_root and initramfs cause a kernel crash
> (once you unmount /initrd in the real system).
> use run-init from klibc instead and you are fine.

You're right: pivot_root and initramfs don't mix, so yaird uses 
pivot_root only in the Debian template, which still has initrd.
The initramfs template manages to boot without run-init using a
hack that's too embarrasing to quote without rot13; klibc is needed
indeed.

Thanks,
Erik






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