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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 23:32:37 +0100 (CET)
From: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, devzero@web.de wrote:

>> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>>>       init=/path/to/any/sbin/chroot /newroot /sbin/init

Great, I was looking for something like this myself some time ago!

> wouldn`t it be useful to add a hint to kernel-parameters.txt ?

How about:

--- linux-2.6-git/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt	2008-02-21 12:01:37.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-git/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.edited	2008-03-07 23:26:39.000000000 +0100
@@ -799,9 +799,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
  			See header of drivers/scsi/in2000.c.

  	init=		[KNL]
-			Format: <full_path>
+			Format: <full_path> <options>
  			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
-			process.
+			process. init= is able to take more than one option
+			allowing us to do:
+			init=/path/to/any/sbin/chroot /newroot /sbin/init
+			...and thus booting into /newroot.

  	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
  			for working out where the kernel is dying during

Thanks,
Christian.
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