initrd

[wbreeze]

I spent a good portion of the day at work tring to get initrd working (mkinitrd).

I've searched the forums and the solutions to all the posts I've found has been, compile the kernel with static drivers (non modules). Makes sense, and thats how I've always done it. But... I now have this dumb ide raid card that will only work with a module from thier website. I downloaded and compiled the driver and it works fine but now I need to make an initrd to get the whole thing working (booting)

I used mkinitrd and put in the apropriate modules
I tried many different things to try and make it work, but now Im at home and cant realy detail it all from memory

But... I finaly gave up and when I came home I thought I would make an initrd that was basicaly empty to test the basics (ie my home pc doesn't need an initrd to work) so I emerged mkinitrd and ran mkinitrd /boot/initrd.img 2.4.27 and added the initrd=/boot/initrd.img line to lilo.conf and ran lilo

when I rebooted It was able to mount the root filesystem but couldn't pivot root.

pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed:2

and of coarse it had a panic

anyway... has anyone ever had any success with mkinitrd?
or does everyone just not use it?
is the pivot root message "failed: 2" indicating and error 2?

BTW this pivot root is a "lite" version built into /bin/nash

[wbreeze]