thmnetwork
02-18-2006, 06:11 PM
ok, I'm trying to roll an initrd from scratch for learning purposes. I'm using cramfs for the filesystem so that I can modularize ext2 and ext3. The initrd has the modules required for ext3, a static insmod, a statis 'ash', static pivot_root, and a linuxrc that mounts the needed root partition after insmod'ing the needed ext3 ko's (like jbd, etc)
the problem comes with the reboot, I try to boot and it exec's the /linuxrc script which uses ash, calling all utilites with their full pathes and pivots root from the mount point of the root partition to /
the problem is this: all my messages are reported to the user as successes, however they're obviously not, when I give init=/bin/sh (which on my root partition is a link to bash, but in initrd is what ash is called) I try to do an ls (both by itself and it's supposed path) it says it can't find it, if I try to auto-complete on the mount point for root it says access is denied, and I'm apparently still running in ash.
so, can anyone help me here?
the problem comes with the reboot, I try to boot and it exec's the /linuxrc script which uses ash, calling all utilites with their full pathes and pivots root from the mount point of the root partition to /
the problem is this: all my messages are reported to the user as successes, however they're obviously not, when I give init=/bin/sh (which on my root partition is a link to bash, but in initrd is what ash is called) I try to do an ls (both by itself and it's supposed path) it says it can't find it, if I try to auto-complete on the mount point for root it says access is denied, and I'm apparently still running in ash.
so, can anyone help me here?