core 3 hangs

[Thomas Cameron]

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From: "solarflow 99" <solarflow99 at hotmail.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Cc: <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com>
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