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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pawel Plociennik <paplociennik@gmail.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 03:22:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080306112212.GA9261@puku.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080306104448.GG13391@elte.hu>

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:44:48AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> we can/could do many other boot options via an initrd too.

There has been some talk of this and even an implementation of much of
it.  I'm not convinced it's a bad idea, I've had to use it myself on
products where the in-kernel ip auto-configuration doesn't work.

> But given an existing initrd (which might have come from the distro,
> etc.) i prefer adding boot options instead of modifying the initrd.

I assume this is so you have have /distro1 /distro2 and use your boot
option to (help) select which one you boot into?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-06  5:01 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
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 [this message]
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
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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