From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: Introduce rootdir bootparm to select which dir to sys_chroot
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:13:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711080013.20702.a1426z@gawab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4730CAD8.1050407@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Al Boldi wrote:
> > Al Boldi wrote:
> >> This patch introduces a rootdir kernel boot parameter, which specifies
> >> the path to the kernel sys_chroot boot dir.
> >>
> >> This is useful for systems that have more than one distribution
> >> installed on the same fs/partition.
>
> This seems like something that should be done via an initramfs.
Agreed. But, not everybody boots their systems via initramfs, and even if
they did, they also have to know how to reconfigure it.
In contrast, this patch offers the rootdir functionality as a simple bootparm
and without any extra initramfs dependency.
Thanks!
--
Al
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-06 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-06 10:40 [PATCH] init: Introduce rootdir bootparm to select which dir to sys_chroot Al Boldi
2007-11-07 20:10 ` Al Boldi
2007-11-06 20:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-07 21:13 ` Al Boldi [this message]
2007-11-06 21:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-09 4:36 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-09 4:57 ` Al Boldi
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