[PATCH] 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 <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
index 4def882..a05cabd 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
@@ -86,7 +86,10 @@
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 ... ");