Re: altroot

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost> 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.