[BusyBox] tmpfs with pivot_root / failed umount

Thomas Lundquist lists at zelow.no
Tue Jan 27 21:39:20 UTC 2004


On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:54:23PM +0200, imitev at obs.bg wrote:
> 
> i'm sorry if the post is off-topic for busybox, but as i'm using busybox for my embedded system, i thought that it would be the right place to ask...
> 
> there are also other posts related to that, plus the tuxscreen pivotroot wiki page
> 
> i spent a lot of time trying to make it work, but i couldn't; maybe i'm missing an obious point; i'm doing the following things:
> 
> - boot a custom i386 2.4.22 kernel with PXE; boot options are "init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0"

> umount /oldroot

2.4.22 had a bug that made unmount "impossible".

fixed in 2.4.23. (and .24)



Thomas.



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