Busybox Init

[Rajeev Bansal]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for replying the query.

I am not sure about this but don't you think when you run the command 
switchroot in init script, then its Init's job to remount the previous 
mounted root with read-write options.

Thanks
-Rajeev

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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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