Hi! S/390 can't reboot the system after the base system has been installed into /target (because that would mean booting from a different device than the boot-floppies did and that's not supported by the kernel) so I'm thinking of just making /target the new root file system and skip the reboot step.
There is already code in dbootstrap/reboot_system.c to do this with a patched kernel (see http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/debian-boot-200001/msg00497.html for details), but can't we do this using pivot_root(2) when root.bin is mounted as initial RAM disk? This procedure is described in Documentation/initrd.txt in the kernel sources. I'd like to do it this way least on S/390 (we are using kernel 2.4), what about the other architectures? Nobody seems to use the current code in dbootstrap so I would replace it for all architectures with new code that uses pivot_root? Any objections? -- Stefan Gybas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]