2.4 kernel style boot using pivot_root (RFC)

[Michal Moskal]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:16:58AM -0700, Aredridel wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:20:34PM +0100, Michal Moskal wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:54:50PM +0100, Jan Rekorajski wrote:
> > > > Bacause it can be on separate partition. /lib/oldroot seems more
> > > > reasonable.
> > > 
> > > There is /mnt directory, maybe /mnt/oldroot?
> > 
> > It is probably better suited, but more prone to removal by stupid
> > user. But it could be solution (with echo "don't delete tralalal..." >
> > /mnt/oldroot/README).
> 
> What about using /mnt itself, since it won't stay mounted after system
> boot anyway?

Looks fine (iff it is always properly unmounted, very early).
As unmounting won't be done by bsp (after some discussion with wiget,
I guess rc-scripts is proper place to do that), this has to be doubly
ensured, that rc-scripts won't mount -a before unmounting initrd.

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