Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.109.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi,
Chroots are pretty neat to maintain different systems side by side without too much hassle, however once in while you need to boot from one of them and then you're in trouble (no easy way to do it afaik). I came up with a script to patch wheezy's initrd and add support for a 'chroot=' boot param. Booting is easy then: just set 'chroot' param and switch to 'rw': menuentry "Debian Wheezy, (chroot)" { insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,7)' set chroot='/chroot/wheezy' linux $chroot/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae root=/dev/sda7 chroot=$chroot rw initrd $chroot/boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686-pae.chroot } It'd be really cool if something like this was supported by initramfs-tools. Patch and details can be found here: https://github.com/lemonsqueeze/boot_chroot https://github.com/lemonsqueeze/boot_chroot/blob/master/initrd.patch Cheers -- lemonsqueeze -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf MODULES=most BUSYBOX=y COMPCACHE_SIZE="" BOOT=local DEVICE=eth0 NFSROOT=auto -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org