Mount problem from initrd

From: Philipp Taprogge (Philipp.Taprogge_at_gmx.net)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:21:48 +0200

Hi!

Perhaps anyone here has a clue for me...
I am building a very small linux system to boot off an IDE-Flash
module and run from a ramdisk. To this end I have built an initrd
containing a statically linked busybox-1.00-pre4 and a 2.4.26 kernel
(with build-in ide and ext2 support).
My linuxrc, which is supposed to set up the ramdisk that will contain
the root-fs, looks something like this: 

---
#!/bin/ash
PATH=/bin:/sbin
mount -o remount,rw /
mount -o ro /dev/hda1 /mnt
gunzip /mnt/rootfs.gz > /dev/ram1
umount /mnt
pivot_root /dev/ram1 initrd
exec /sbin/init
---
The problem is that "mount -o ro /dev/hda1 /mnt" fails with "mount of 
/dev/hda1 on /mnt failed: no such file or directory".
/bin/mount is a smylink to busybox, /dev/hda1 a block special device 
with major 3, minor 1, owned by root.root and rights 640 and /mnt is a 
directory owned by root.root with rights 755.
What do I fail to notice here?
Thanks for any clues you guys can offer.
	Phil

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