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Message-ID: <20080306115315.GA8972@elf.ucw.cz>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:53:17 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@...f.org>,
Pawel Plociennik <paplociennik@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter
On Thu 2008-03-06 12:37:29, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Chris Wedgwood <cw@...f.org> wrote:
>
> > > But given an existing initrd (which might have come from the distro,
> > > etc.) i prefer adding boot options instead of modifying the initrd.
> >
> > I assume this is so you have have /distro1 /distro2 and use your boot
> > option to (help) select which one you boot into?
>
> while i have no personal use for chroot=, i generally test distros that
> way, yes - and i try to keep them as unmodified as possible.
>
> "Use the initrd as an extended boot commandline" is a poor answer IMO.
>
> _Everything_ we do on the boot commandline that affects user-space can
> be done in an initrd in theory - but still we have hundreds of boot
> options.
Yes, please. chroot= is useful, nonintrusive, and it just should be there.
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