On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>wrote:

>
>  i'm sure this question will be the cause of great hilarity, but is
> there a way to switch root back to my kernel's internal initramfs.
> occasionally, i need to drop into that mode and the only way to do it
> is to reboot the system, which is easy, of course, but it would be
> cool if i didn't have to do that.
>

I am not sure what exactly you would want to do with this but pivot_root
does the "rootfs" switching. Manual page
http://linux.die.net/man/8/pivot_root can sort out some of your curiosity.


>
>  i'm thinking the answer is no, but i'm willing to be pleasantly
> surprised.
>
> rday
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Shaz

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