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SubjectRe: / on ramfs, possible?
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Pardon?! This doesn't make any sense...
>
> The question was: how do switch from the initrd to using the ramfs as /?
> Using pivot_root should do it (after the pivot, you can of course nuke
> the initrd ramdisk.)

My question is: What do you want to do that for? You can nuke the initrd
ramdisk, but you can't drop the rd.c code, or ll_rw_blk.c code, etc. So
why not just keep your root filesystem in the initrd where it started off?

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dwmw2


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