Improper initrd failure message at boot time
PATCH 1/1 Improper initrd failure message at boot time
On system boot up, there was an failure reported to boot.msg:
<5>Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
According to initrd(4) man page, step #7 of BOOT-UP OPERATION is described as below:
7. If the normal root file has directory /initrd, device
/dev/ram0 is moved from / to /initrd. Otherwise if
directory /initrd does not exist device /dev/ram0 is unmounted.
We got service calls from customers concerning about this failure message at boot time. Many systems do not have /initrd and thus the message can be changed in the case of non-existing /initrd so that it does not sound like a failure of the system.
Signed-off-by Jay Lan <[email protected]>
init/do_mounts_initrd.c +4 -1
@@ -86,7 +86,10 @@ static void __init handle_initrd(void)printk ("okay\n" ); else {int fd =sys_open ("/dev/root.old" ,O_RDWR ,0 ); -printk ("failed\n" ); +if (error == -ENOENT ) +printk ("/initrd does not exist. Ignored.\n" ); +else +printk ("failed\n" );printk (KERN_NOTICE "Unmounting old root\n" );sys_umount ("/old" ,MNT_DETACH );printk (KERN_NOTICE "Trying to free ramdisk memory ... " );