From: Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>
Subject: Re: initramfs: is it supposed to work?
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 16:40:13 +0100
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Hi,

run-init seems to mount the new root, rm files in the old root,
mount, chroot, open the console, exec. any reason we can't do
that in shell script commands?
 
> You don't pivot_root initramfs, because initramfs *IS* rootfs.
> 
> Instead, use the run-init program

ok, but still: is it ok for the kernel to die?
after all pivot_root works fine, unless /initrd is unmounted.
what exactly is the kernel internal that makes pivot_root special?

Regards, Andreas

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