> Hey everyone, > When a RHEL system is booting, in the messages you can see "Switching to > new > root." Can someone explain this part of the bootup process? What exactly > is > meant by "new root," is it simply another shell starting or what? > -Matthew Hi, Matthew. When an RHEL (or any other Linux) boots, it starts up from a RAMdisk (see /boot/initrd*), which contains enough of a filesystem grouping to boot the system and perform initialization. At a certain point, it goes ahead and mounts your actual root (/) filesystem, at which point it spits out that message. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
