That wouldn't make init pid 1, though.
I do agree that the right thing to do is to have initrd mount the new
root filesystem, and communicate it to the kernel somehow (for example
via /proc/sys), but the kernel needs to be aware of the transition
event so it can make init pid 1.
-hpa
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