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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
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 12:37:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080306113729.GA18403@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080306112212.GA9261@puku.stupidest.org>


* Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:

> > 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?

while i have no personal use for chroot=, i generally test distros that 
way, yes - and i try to keep them as unmodified as possible.

"Use the initrd as an extended boot commandline" is a poor answer IMO. 

_Everything_ we do on the boot commandline that affects user-space can 
be done in an initrd in theory - but still we have hundreds of boot 
options.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06 11:37 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
2008-03-06 11:37       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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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