How to boot from a debootstrap based install?

Posted by João Pinto on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by João Pinto
Published on 2010-12-11T00:12:49Z Indexed on 2011/01/06 18:58 UTC
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I would like to boot a testing Ubuntu release from a directory (which contains a debootstrap based install).

As far as I understand I just need someway to tell the boot process (initrd scripts?) that it should chroot() into the specified dir immediately after mounting the root partition, and then resume the regular upstart/init start.

Could someone provide some instructions on how to achieve this?

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