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initrd broken???

DISCUSSION Jeff Chua 1 participant 1 message Oct 30, 2000

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I'm posting this hoping that someone will fix this soon ...

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freeram /dev/ram0
File freeram.c: Line 41: ioctl /dev/ram0: Error 16: Device or resource

busy

this should not happen.

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I cannot free the old initrd root partition under 2.4.0-testx, but it

works

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fine on 2.2.17.

hmm, as initrd now is used by almost evry Linux distributor, there for sure will be a fix sooner or later if it is broken ;-)
... just wait a bit or complain on [email protected]

Hans
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original message ...

Any chance to fix the following bug in 2.4.x

dmesg (from bootup message) ...
change_root: old root has d_count=3

freeram /dev/ram0
File freeram.c: Line 41: ioctl /dev/ram0: Error 16: Device or resource busy

I cannot free the old initrd root partition under 2.4.0-testx, but it works fine on 2.2.17. I used loadlin to boot up
ramdisk initrd first, load the ide driver, and boot up the real linux.

I hope you guys are still the one maintaining initrd, if not, please point me to someone who can help,
or send me a few lines as to how I can fix this.

Thanks,
Jeff
[ [email protected] ]

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