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Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:44:45 +0100
From: Stefan Hellermann <stefan@the2masters.de>
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To: Pawel Plociennik <paplociennik@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] chroot= as a new kernel parameter
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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.

Cheers
Stefan

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