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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Lev Olshvang wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:4A5306F8.5080701@vboxcomm.com" type="cite">Boker
Everybody,
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<br>
<br>
I recently experienced a strange problem:
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<br>
The system is based on Ubuntu kernel 2.6.28 which I compiled and built
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initramfs for it provided with a driver for ide disk (pata_via.ko)
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<br>
grub should boot this system from the root=/dev/sda1
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<br>
The boot process stops on a famous message "waiting for a root file
system".
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<br>
But then it enters the busybox prompt and I see that /dev/sda1 is
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indeed exist, I can mount it and access files.
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<br>
<br>
I do not understand this : root device is ready, but boot process
is
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stuck ??
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Simple: <br>
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You either use an initramfs, and if so your initramfs should mount the
real root file system itself using switch_root() or you don't use an
initramfs and let the kernel mount it (but then you need the driver
compiled into the kernel).<br>
<br>
Gilad<br>
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