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From: Al Boldi
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: Introduce rootdir bootparm to select which dir to sys_chroot
Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 - 2:13 pm

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

Agreed. But, not everybody boots their systems via initramfs, and even if 
they did, they also have to know how to reconfigure it.

In contrast, this patch offers the rootdir functionality as a simple bootparm 
and without any extra initramfs dependency.


Thanks!

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Al


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[PATCH] init: Introduce rootdir bootparm to select which d ..., Al Boldi, (Tue Nov 6, 3:40 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: Introduce rootdir bootparm to select whi ..., H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Nov 6, 1:13 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: Introduce rootdir bootparm to select whi ..., H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Nov 6, 2:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: Introduce rootdir bootparm to select whi ..., Al Boldi, (Wed Nov 7, 1:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: Introduce rootdir bootparm to select whi ..., Al Boldi, (Wed Nov 7, 2:13 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: Introduce rootdir bootparm to select whi ..., Andrew Morton, (Thu Nov 8, 9:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: Introduce rootdir bootparm to select whi ..., Al Boldi, (Thu Nov 8, 9:57 pm)