To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: core 3 hangs
ok, it is a working installation, if I pull the 20 GB drive into my PIII-866 (where I installed it from) it boots up just fine. The computer that it hangs with is an older PC, I was kind of embarassed to say the specs, but there must be other people running FC3 on older hardware too. it's a P-100 16MB ram, I changed the kernel to the newest i586 rpm, it won't even boot up with i686 anyway. I have selinux disabled. I'm just wondering what happens when linux displays "Switching to a new root" just before the Init process starts.
thanks for the reply
It means that the temporary root filesystem (ramdisk) used to boot the OS is getting unmounted and the physical disk's filesystem is getting mounted. The /initrd directory is where that happens - IIRC the initial ramdisk mounts on /initrd and then unmounts that to mount the real filesystem.
Thomas
