Re: pivot_root off an initramfs broken

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <1070496272.8280.443.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Martin Hicks <mort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> If I boot a 2.6 kernel that first execs /sbin/kinit on the initramfs,
> does some setup (mostly to find the real root filesystem), then
> pivot_roots over to the real root filesystem and execs /sbin/init the
> kernel spins inside check_mnt() while mounting /proc in the initscripts.
> 

The initramfs is the "real root" -- you shouldn't pivot_root from it,
instead you should mount the new root on top of it.

This makes cleaning up a bit of an issue -- the proposed rootfs
mount_single patch takes care of that -- but it can also be done by
leaving a cleanup process with cwd inside the initramfs with would use
relative paths to clean up.

Something like this:

	  mount / /dev/real_root_whatever
	  ( rm -rf . ) &
	  exec /sbin/init "$@"

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