Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752688AbXFXV5L (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:57:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751422AbXFXV46 (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:56:58 -0400 Received: from slowhand.arndnet.de ([88.198.19.76]:40568 "EHLO mail.unitix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751352AbXFXV46 (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:56:58 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1094 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:56:58 EDT Message-ID: <467EE48D.5010204@arndnet.de> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:39:25 +0200 From: Arnd Hannemann User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Salvatore De Paolis , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: pivot_root alternative References: <20070624232734.28829225@debian> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 890 Lines: 22 Jan Engelhardt schrieb: > On Jun 24 2007 23:27, Salvatore De Paolis wrote: >> i built the kernel with a busybox initramfs which runs from a usb stick. While >> i boot i need to mount the real root and i'm using pivot_root. >> Pivot_root . old-root return to me an "Invalid argument" error and googling i >> found here http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/10/8/17 that pivot_root should be avoided. >> I want to ask now what i should do to switch to a real root? > > use run-init from klibc? However be aware of the limitation of run-init: It only works for direct childs of root directory /mnt/newroot won't work /newroot should work ;-) Good luck, Arnd - 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/