On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Bodo Eggert wrote: >> 1) This is useful for booting a rescue or test system, too. In those cases, >> you might want to have the old root moved somewhere. >> (Always "$rootdir/oldroot"? Additional parameter? I'm not sure ...) >> > > Again, this is a good example of why this really shouldn't be additional > hacks in kernel space.
ACK, but until kinit is default (and Godot arrives), this little hack does seem to be useful. -- Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say: 63. Oracle will be down until 8pm, but you can come back in and finish your work when it comes up tonight. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/