Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] chroot= as a new kernel parameter | From | Kasper Sandberg <> | Date | Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:17:06 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 20:44 +0100, Stefan Hellermann wrote: > Pawel Plociennik schrieb: > > hi *real* hackers, > > > > it is a my first post to lkml and I hope that you will have not been > > ignored me if I have done some incorrect thing. > > > > In the short this patch has added a new chroot= kernel parameter which can be used > > to changing a chroot of an init process before it will has been runed. > > I use that for testing variouses distroes without making a separate partition but > > by copied a new root-fs to a new subdirectory on the my *base* filesystem. > > Hi! > > Gentoos initrd (build by genkernel) has support for a chrooted boot, the parameter is > called subdir= > Maybe other distros have something similar, it's easy to support this with a initrd/initramfs.
Hey!
Im a simple guy though, i prefer this being in the kernel. I do not even use an initramfs.
> > Cheers > Stefan > > PS: This is my first post to lkml, too :) > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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