Re: ramfs: mounting ramfs as / at boot time

From: Dave Cinege (dcinege@psychosis.com)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 14:48:24 EST


almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote:
>
> Dave Cinege wrote:
> > Any ideas on how to go about mounting root using ramfs without utterly
> > mutilating mount_root()? root=ramfs does not work. (Maybe it should??)
>
> pivot_root should be able to do the trick. (Comes with recent versions
> of util-linux. And you need a reasonably recent kernel too.)

I need to have it mounted in or before mount_root() in the kernel.

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