On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 12:19:14AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Thu Jun 08, 2000 at 11:15:11PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 04:51:03PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > I see that dbootstrap supports the "initchroot" feature of some kernel to
> > > start the new system without rebooting... But I cannot find that in any
> > > kernel source?
> > >
> >
> > It was a patch distributed on l-k some time back. I tried to get it
> > working, but it had issues with NFS roots, so I put it on the backburner
> > until woody/2.4.x (which includes the feature).
>
> Since Woody will be using the 2.4 kernel, we will be able to use the new "pivot
> root" feature to do this, whic does essentially the same thing, but does it
> much cleaner. The current "initchroot" stuff in dbootstrap and in busybox init
> will be replaced with new stuff to do the "pivot root" thing. But this is
> definately Woddy stuff.
Yeah, pivot root is the final state of the initchroot patch I was using.
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