Actually you can; it's called initrd. Currently, of course, initrd
uses this funny hybrid user space-kernel space scheme for remounting
the root; I believe that should be changed so that you actually mount
the new root in a standard fashion and pass the kernel a file
descriptor to the new root.
-hpa
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