On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Sri Ram Vemulpali <sri.ram.gmu06@gmail.com> wrote:
but when I used the following command "find . | cpio --quiet -H newc -o | gzip -9 -n > /boot/imagefile.img" to make cpio archive of initrd, I do not see any errors in creating device files, when I unarchive it.
really weird, but glad you solved it...and it's nice that you share it to us...
There was a wrong entry "/dev/root", this device do not exist in initrd image and grub do not create nor attach initrd contents to /dev/root. Grub creates /dev/ram0 or /dev/ram or /dev/initrd and attaches initrd contents to this device. Kernel then reads contents from one of these devices as root fs.
IIRC, /dev/root is like generic name for the rootfs device. Sometimes ago I checked kernel source and I conclude that it is a name actually given when initramfs is mounted....but then kernel do pivot to real root device in the disk
Now the current problem is, I am stuck on, unable to get console. I got stuck after sshd (I want dropbear daemon on my machine), it seems sshd got started, but no prompt is displayed. I think I should get console control. Any ideas.
i think in "man ssh", there is an option to force tty allocation. Anyway, it's going OOT here... -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com