Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758147AbYCGKgi (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 05:36:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752591AbYCGKga (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 05:36:30 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:1565 "EHLO ns.firmix.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752497AbYCGKg3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 05:36:29 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Pavel Machek , Ingo Molnar , Pawel Plociennik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <47D06265.8030305@zytor.com> References: <200803060001.38432.paplociennik@gmail.com> <47CF79E4.3030107@zytor.com> <20080306102712.GE13391@elte.hu> <47D00B16.6040004@zytor.com> <20080306212028.GB1747@elf.ucw.cz> <47D06265.8030305@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:36:01 +0100 Message-Id: <1204886161.15966.17.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Firmix-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on ns.firmix.at X-Firmix-Spam-Score: -2.331 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.331 required=5 X-Spam-Score: -2.331 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Envelope-From: X-Firmix-Envelope-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 852 Lines: 24 On Don, 2008-03-06 at 13:30 -0800, 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. ... or use a statically linked chroot program (not necessarily to be found in /working_distro). Shouldn't be too large anyways .... Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- 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/