Messages in this thread | | | From | Al Boldi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter | Date | Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:10:24 +0300 |
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Christian Kujau wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, devzero@web.de wrote: > >> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > >>> init=/path/to/any/sbin/chroot /newroot /sbin/init > > Great, I was looking for something like this myself some time ago! > > > wouldn`t it be useful to add a hint to kernel-parameters.txt ? > > How about: > > init= [KNL] > - Format: <full_path> > + Format: <full_path> <options> > Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init > - process. > + process. init= is able to take more than one option > + allowing us to do: > + init=/path/to/any/sbin/chroot /newroot /sbin/init > + ...and thus booting into /newroot.
Nice try, but this only works on the surface. Try remounting root to see what I mean.
Now, for a patch that actually does what we want, try this:
[PATCH][retry-2] init: Introduce rootdir bootparm to select which dir to sys_chroot
Thanks!
-- Al
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