Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:45:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:45:47 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:5507 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:45:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:46:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Werner Almesberger cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Q] pivot_root and initrd In-Reply-To: <20011023223706.A8463@almesberger.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Werner Almesberger wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > The right thing is to get rid of the old initrd compatibility cruft, > > but that's a 2.5 change. > > Yes, change_root is obsolete (and relies on assumptions that are no > longer valid in several cases), and there has been plenty of time for > distributors to switch. An early funeral in 2.5 is a good idea. Hmm. I need to install a SCSI driver, presumably from initrd RAM disk as currently works. Will the new pivot-root be transparent? Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips). I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/