Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:59:36 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: pivot_root alternative |
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Arnd Hannemann wrote: > Jan Engelhardt schrieb: >> On Jun 24 2007 23:27, Salvatore De Paolis wrote: >>> i built the kernel with a busybox initramfs which runs from a usb stick. While >>> i boot i need to mount the real root and i'm using pivot_root. >>> Pivot_root . old-root return to me an "Invalid argument" error and googling i >>> found here http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/10/8/17 that pivot_root should be avoided. >>> I want to ask now what i should do to switch to a real root? >> use run-init from klibc? > > However be aware of the limitation of run-init: > It only works for direct childs of root directory > /mnt/newroot won't work > /newroot should work ;-) >
Hm, that should probably be fixed. It should be able to work on any directory as long as there isn't another *filesystem* involved...
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