lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2011]   [Dec]   [15]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: Subject:[PATCH 1:1] boot paramer "root=" gets a list of devices
From
Date
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




\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2011-12-15 16:23    [W:1.315 / U:0.036 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site