Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:39:25 +0200 | From | Arnd Hannemann <> | Subject | Re: pivot_root alternative |
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Jan Engelhardt schrieb: > On Jun 24 2007 23:27, Salvatore De Paolis wrote: >> i built the kernel with a busybox initramfs which runs from a usb stick. While >> i boot i need to mount the real root and i'm using pivot_root. >> Pivot_root . old-root return to me an "Invalid argument" error and googling i >> found here http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/10/8/17 that pivot_root should be avoided. >> I want to ask now what i should do to switch to a real root? > > use run-init from klibc?
However be aware of the limitation of run-init: It only works for direct childs of root directory /mnt/newroot won't work /newroot should work ;-)
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