Re: making a linux kernel with no root filesystem

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> You want a "prompt where I can either shutdown or reboot the system".
> How to do that? It is best done from small userspace environment,
> like initrd or initramfs. Putting this into kernel is ugly.

Magic Sysrequest?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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