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

From: Bernd Petrovitsch
Date: Fri Mar 07 2008 - 05:36:38 EST


On Don, 2008-03-06 at 13:30 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> > This really should be in kernel, I should not have to partition my
> > disk to get booting to few different distros.
> >
>
> Use a small initramfs. That's the Right Thing to do in the first place.

... or use a statically linked chroot program (not necessarily to be
found in /working_distro). Shouldn't be too large anyways ....

Bernd
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