Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 23:05:58 +0100
From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Pawel Plociennik <paplociennik@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter
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On 06.03.2008 13:30, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
>>
>> This really should be in kernel, I should not have to partition my
>> disk to get booting to few different distros.
>
> Use a small initramfs.  That's the Right Thing to do in the first place.

And what's with the people that just don't have such a beast?

I use monolithic kernels, know the device-name of my root-fs and i'm 
proud of it. ;-)


Bis denn

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