Re: / on ramfs, possible?

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 18:32:23 EST

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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Pardon?! This doesn't make any sense...
>
> The question was: how do switch from the initrd to using the ramfs as /?
> Using pivot_root should do it (after the pivot, you can of course nuke
> the initrd ramdisk.)

My question is: What do you want to do that for? You can nuke the initrd
ramdisk, but you can't drop the rd.c code, or ll_rw_blk.c code, etc. So
why not just keep your root filesystem in the initrd where it started off?

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