Edgar Fuß <e...@math.uni-bonn.de> writes: > Whats the point of /altroot? hier(7) says "Alternate root file system, > in case of disaster." Is there a way to boot such that / is not inode 2, > but that of altroot?
>From long ago practice, this presumes that altroot is a separate disk partition, and that you have / and /usr separate too. So you'd tell the bootloader to boot from the altroot partition instead, and presumably it is mounted at /altroot when up so you can write to it.
