Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:26:42 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: / on ramfs, possible? |
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David Woodhouse wrote: > > On 29 Oct 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > I want my / to be a ramfs filesystem. I intend to populate it from an > > > initrd image, and then remount / as the ramfs filesystem. Is that at > > > all possible? The way I see it the kernel requires / on a device > > > (major,minor) or nfs. > > > > > > Am I out of luck using ramfs as /? If it's easy to fix, how do I fix it? > > > > > > > Use pivot_root instead of the initrd stuff in /proc/sys. > > Urgh. Then you're still using an initrd, and you still have to include all > the crap necessary to support those horrid block-device thingies. > > Why not just use a ramdisk? >
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.)
-hpa
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