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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:59:39 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [Q] pivot_root and initrd
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, bill davidsen wrote:
> In article <9r4c24$g2k$1@cesium.transmeta.com>,
> H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
> | The right thing is to get rid of the old initrd compatibility cruft,
> | but that's a 2.5 change.
>
>   Get rid of??? As long as you have some equivalent capability to get
> the system up.

pivot_root(2) in combination with pivot_root(8)

Rik
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