Busybox Init

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Tue Dec 4 23:02:32 PST 2007


On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Rajeev Bansal wrote:
> I am trying to boot Ubuntu Kernel using custom root file system. I am
> using Busybox's (Version 1.7.0)  init for initing my box. I am observing
> init is not remounting my system root which is /dev/sda2 in my case on
> /.

why do you think init should be doing anything even remotely like that ?  that 
is not the job of init, that is the job of your scripts.

> After booting up  I observe it has mounted /dev/root on /, which is 
> also working fine for me. But I want it should remount the system root
> (/dev/sda2 ) on /.  I am writing my init script which kernel is executes
> during init process, and the output of the mount command just let me
> know if I am missing something there.

/dev/root is whatever you set root= when booting the kernel

this really isnt a busybox issue.  please take your question to a Linux From 
Scratch mailing list.
-mike
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