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By author:    Anders Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> I want my / to be a ramfs filesystem. I intend to populate it from an 
> initrd image, and then remount / as the ramfs filesystem. Is that at 
> all possible? The way I see it the kernel requires / on a device 
> (major,minor) or nfs.
> 
> Am I out of luck using ramfs as /? If it's easy to fix, how do I fix it?
> 

Use pivot_root instead of the initrd stuff in /proc/sys.

        -hpa

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