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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:44:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Torrey Hoffman <torrey.hoffman@myrio.com>
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Subject: RE: pivot_root and initrd kernel panic woes
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Torrey Hoffman wrote:

> Some of them boot and some of them don't.  I can take a non-working
> image, gunzip it, dd it back to the ramdisk, mount it, and 
> recursively diff it against the original rootfs and find nothing
> wrong. 

Check permissions/ownership.  That doesn't show up in diff...

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