Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter

[Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>]

Christian Kujau wrote:
> 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?

Exactly.

> 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...

Sure,  your doc effort is much appreciated, but neither the proposed patch nor 
the init= trick works as advertised, due to some strange /dev/root 
dependencies.

Now, the rootdir= patch works around this by binding the rootdir before 
sys_chroot.


Thanks!

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Al