Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Subject:[PATCH 1:1] boot paramer "root=" gets a list of devices | From | Raz Ben Yehuda <> | Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:19:58 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 16:02 +0100, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 12/15/2011 01:13 AM, Raz Ben Yehuda wrote: > > From: Raz ben yehuda<rbenyehuda@manz.com> > > > > Patch is aimed to bypass the need for initramfs when it is not > > known which disk has the root file system. > > > > Example: The kernel boot parameter "root=/dev/sda1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdb4". > > Check if /dev/sda1 exists ,if /dev/sda1 does not exist then try > > /dev/sdc1 an so on upto the first a device that exists ( ROOT_DEV != 0 ), > > else use the last device as the mount device. > > > > patch is on top of 3.2-rc5. > > > > Signed-off-by: Raz Ben Yehuda<rbenyehuda@manz.com> > > > > To which point I have to ask, once again, at which point we stop putting > this stuff in the kernel to "bypass the need for initramfs"... because there are times where we cannot use initramfs. is this a problem with way i phrase or with with the whole idea ?
> -hpa
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