On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:32:57AM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > I have filed #146208 against shellutils almost a month ago. It's about > the chroot binary being in /usr/sbin instead of /sbin and I didn't get any > reaction so far. > In short, when booting an initrd, after the pivot_root a chroot has to > be done into the new root. If /usr is on a separate partition, chroot > isn't available, boot fails. > I'm tempted to raise the severity on that bug (it's normal for now), but > I'm a bit reluctant to do that to a base package in deep freeze. Though > it would be nice to be able to boot woody just with the tools in /bin > and /sbin. Any thoughts on what to do? With what kernels must you do a chroot after pivot_root? On systems where I'm using pivot_root + Linux 2.4.18, I only have to do 'cd /'. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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