Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:48:21 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available |
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Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>: > I -STILL- can't figure out why the autoprober doesn't just look in > /proc/mounts to figure out who and what our root device and filesystem are.
The version I just released does exactly that. Well, not exactly; it actually looks at fstab -- /proc/mounts gives you '/dev/root' rather than a physical device name in the root entry.
> I need to set up a system that boots to an initrd and puts the root > device lives on a samba server just to confuse eric's autoprober. > Hmmm... I wonder if that would work? :)
No. It only knows about IDE and SCSI root devices at the moment. As I learn how to identify other kinds of root volume it will get smarter. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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