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Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:28:28 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter
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Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> 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 ....
> 

For what it's worth:

: tazenda 102 ; ls -l ~/klibc/klibc/usr/utils/static/chroot
-rwxrwxr-x 1 hpa hpa 8488 2008-03-06 14:04 
/home/hpa/klibc/klibc/usr/utils/static/chroot*

	(compiled for x86-64)

	-hpa
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