From f220ab2a5162c35cca6993ea473937cfc962fce4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jay Lan Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 02:59:03 -0700 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- init/do_mounts_initrd.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'init/do_mounts_initrd.c') diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c index 4def882d0b3..a05cabd0fd1 100644 --- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c +++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c @@ -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 ... "); -- cgit v1.2.3