Re: ramfs: mounting ramfs as / at boot time

From: almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 06:09:44 EST

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Dave Cinege wrote:
> Any ideas on how to go about mounting root using ramfs without utterly
> mutilating mount_root()? root=ramfs does not work. (Maybe it should??)

pivot_root should be able to do the trick. (Comes with recent versions
of util-linux. And you need a reasonably recent kernel too.)

- Werner

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