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From: Stefan Hellermann <stefan@the2masters.de>
To: Pawel Plociennik <paplociennik@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] chroot= as a new kernel parameter
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:44:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C9B22D.6010003@the2masters.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803011409.59526.paplociennik@gmail.com>

Pawel Plociennik schrieb:
> hi *real* hackers,
> 
> it is a my first post to lkml and I hope that you will have not been
> ignored me if I have done some incorrect thing.
> 
> In the short this patch has added a new chroot= kernel parameter which can be used
> to changing a chroot of an init process before it will has been runed.
> I use that for testing variouses distroes without making a separate partition but
> by copied a new root-fs to a new subdirectory on the my *base* filesystem.

Hi!

Gentoos initrd (build by genkernel) has support for a chrooted boot, the parameter is
called subdir=
Maybe other distros have something similar, it's easy to support this with a initrd/initramfs.

Cheers
Stefan

PS: This is my first post to lkml, too :)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-01 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-01 19:09 [PATCH] chroot= as a new kernel parameter Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-01 18:47 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-03-01 19:44 ` Stefan Hellermann [this message]
2008-03-02 11:17   ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-03-02 15:35 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-02 15:53 ` Filippo Zangheri
2008-03-02 16:00 ` Guillaume Chazarain
2008-03-02 23:59   ` Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-02 18:05     ` Guillaume Chazarain
2008-03-03  1:09       ` Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-03 14:12         ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-03 15:19           ` Guillaume Chazarain
2008-03-05 13:38             ` Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-05  8:10               ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-05 13:23               ` Guillaume Chazarain
2008-03-06  4:51                 ` Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-06  4:54                 ` Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-06  4:59                 ` Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-02 19:05     ` Alan Cox
2008-03-03 14:11   ` Pavel Machek
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     [not found] ` <a2YVo-4N6-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <a3k9B-4Cf-43@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-03-03 16:08     ` Bodo Eggert
     [not found] ` <a3k9y-4Cf-35@gated-at.bofh.it>
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     [not found]     ` <a3Wop-6Xn-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <a41Rb-7mN-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-03-06  0:16         ` Bodo Eggert

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