Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > It's useless because it's exactly and trivially replaceable with:
> >
> > 	init=/path/to/any/sbin/chroot /newroot /sbin/init
>
> ok, i didnt realize that this was possible. Ah ... i see, 
> init/main.c:init_setup() is special and picks the whole boot parameter 
> string up to the end, right? So init= is the only multi-parameter 
> init-parameter.

Actually, any parameters without = get passed as arguments to init.

	-hpa
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