Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: NFS mounted rootfs possible via PCMCIA NIC ? | Date | 12 Dec 2002 13:49:22 -0800 |
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Followup to: <200212121829.46465.andreas.schaufler@gmx.de> By author: Andreas Schaufler <andreas.schaufler@gmx.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > ... > > PCMCIA relies in part on user space. You can do this, it involves > > building a large initrd with a dhcp client on it that sets up pcmcia, > > then nfs mounts stuff, then pivot_root()'s into it. Its not exactly > > trivial > > Thanks for your reply. I get the basic idea from what you say. But what do you > mean by pivot_root()'ing into it ?!? >
pivot_root() is a system call which flips the root directory around. See Documentation/initrd.txt.
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