On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 20:44 +0100, Stefan Hellermann wrote:
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> Pawel Plociennik schrieb:
> > hi *real* hackers,
> > 
> > it is a my first post to lkml and I hope that you will have not been
> > ignored me if I have done some incorrect thing.
> > 
> > In the short this patch has added a new chroot= kernel parameter which can be used
> > to changing a chroot of an init process before it will has been runed.
> > I use that for testing variouses distroes without making a separate partition but
> > by copied a new root-fs to a new subdirectory on the my *base* filesystem.
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Gentoos initrd (build by genkernel) has support for a chrooted boot, the parameter is
> called subdir=
> Maybe other distros have something similar, it's easy to support this with a initrd/initramfs.

Hey!

Im a simple guy though, i prefer this being in the kernel. I do not even
use an initramfs.

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> 
> Cheers
> Stefan
> 
> PS: This is my first post to lkml, too :)
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