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From: "Brian J. Murrell" <brian@mountainviewdata.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip autoconfig with modules, kernel 2.4
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 11:49:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010511114909.B27378@brian-laptop.us.mvd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010510094953.C28095@brian-laptop.us.mvd> <20010510180039.D9771@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20010511111300.A27378@brian-laptop.us.mvd> <20010511193833.B12798@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010511193833.B12798@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>; from rmk@arm.linux.org.uk on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 07:38:33PM +0100

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 07:38:33PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> 
> As long as you can get the root server IP and path from the DHCP client,

I can do that.  :-)

> then you mount it in a directory, and use pivot_root() to change to
> that directory.

Cool.

> See the "Changing the root device" of Documentation/initrd.txt for more
> information about this.

This looks like the ticket.  I will hack away at that when I can get a
moment.  :-)

Thanx!

b.


      reply	other threads:[~2001-05-11 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-10 16:49 Brian J. Murrell
2001-05-10 17:00 ` Russell King
2001-05-11 18:13   ` Brian J. Murrell
2001-05-11 18:21     ` Peter Svensson
2001-05-11 18:38     ` Russell King
2001-05-11 18:49       ` Brian J. Murrell [this message]

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