diff -urN linux-2.4.19/init/do_mounts.c linux-2.4.19.SuSE/init/do_mounts.c
--- linux-2.4.19/init/do_mounts.c	Fri Sep 13 12:33:22 2002
+++ linux-2.4.19.SuSE/init/do_mounts.c	Fri Sep 13 12:33:39 2002
@@ -921,6 +921,8 @@
 	sys_mount("/", ".", NULL, MS_MOVE, NULL);
 	/* switch root and cwd back to / of rootfs */
 	sys_fchdir(root_fd);
+	close(old_fd);
+	close(root_fd);
 	sys_chroot(".");
 	sys_umount("/old/dev", 0);