Re: 2.1.95 freezes were my fault; kmod patch
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
12 Apr 1998 00:47:00 GMT
Followup to: <199804112020.NAA08057@adam.yggdrasil.com>
By author: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> switch to the new root by doing "exec chroot /mnt /sbin/init" rather
> than exiting to enable initial ramdisks that can select from more than
> one possibility for finding the actual root partition (e.g., bringing
> up a screen that says "boot from CDROM or boot from network?").
> Please do not remove that functionality.
>
Why? Shouldn't this be set by putting the proper values in the
relevant /proc/sys entries before exiting from linuxrc?
-hpa
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