Re: chroot in /usr and initrd booting
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Jens Ruehmkorf wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Andreas Bombe wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 08:45:13PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > > 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 /'.
> >
> > AFAIK the i386 version still has ext2 in the kernel and ext3 as a
> > module with forces you to do something like pivot_root if you want to
> > have a ext3 rootfs.
>
> I don't know about the i386 boot-floppies, but the kernel-images from
> Herbert Xu have ext2 and ext3 as modules and use initrd.
Wrong.
/org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-i386/kernel-image-2.4.18-386_2.4.18-5_i386.deb
has still doesn't have a ext2 module.
> So it's no problem to have a root fs with ext3 (or reiserfs for that
> matter) when using mkinitrd.
See above.
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