Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755094AbYCHO2W (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Mar 2008 09:28:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752865AbYCHO2N (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Mar 2008 09:28:13 -0500 Received: from ns2.g-housing.de ([81.169.133.75]:55288 "EHLO mail.g-house.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751034AbYCHO2M (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Mar 2008 09:28:12 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:28:05 +0100 (CET) From: Christian Kujau X-X-Sender: evil@sheep.housecafe.de To: Al Boldi cc: LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter In-Reply-To: <200803081710.24137.a1426z@gawab.com> Message-ID: References: <200803081710.24137.a1426z@gawab.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 889 Lines: 24 On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Al Boldi wrote: > Nice try, but this only works on the surface. Try remounting root to see what I mean. Are you suggesting that hpa's init= thingy doesn't support remounting root? If so, it'd have to be mentioned in kernel-parameters.txt as well. > Now, for a patch that actually does what we want, try this: > [PATCH][retry-2] init: Introduce rootdir bootparm to select which dir > to sys_chroot I didn't intend to introduce another bootparam, because of -ENOSKILL. But somewhere in this thread is a patch for the chroot= bootparam, I have not tested it though... C. -- BOFH excuse #93: Feature not yet implemented -- 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/