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 | |
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!
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Al
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