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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
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 23:05:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080306220558.GA18202@citd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47D06265.8030305@zytor.com>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-06  5:01 [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-06  4:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 10:27   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 15:17     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 20:57       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 21:05         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 21:20       ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-06 21:30         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 22:05           ` Matthias Schniedermeyer [this message]
2008-03-07 10:36           ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-03-07 12:28             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 21:42         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 21:50           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 22:22             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-07  4:53         ` Greg Schafer
2008-03-07  9:27         ` Måns Rullgård
2008-03-06 16:54     ` Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-06 15:47   ` Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-06 10:34 ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-03-06 10:44   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 11:22     ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-03-06 11:37       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 11:53         ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-06 19:46           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-06 20:57             ` Willy Tarreau
2008-03-07  8:23         ` Chris Wedgwood
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-07 21:04 devzero
2008-03-07 22:32 ` Christian Kujau
2008-03-08 14:10 Al Boldi
2008-03-08 14:28 ` Christian Kujau
2008-03-08 16:34   ` Al Boldi

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