Silly bootup question

Matty Sarro msarro at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 15:30:07 UTC 2010


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



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