Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

Andrew Morton (andrewm@uow.edu.au)
Sat, 19 May 2001 19:11:45 +1000

Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > (2) what about bootstrapping? how do you find the root device?
> > Do you do "root=/dev/hda/offset=63,limit=1235823"? Bit nasty.
>
> Ben's patch makes initrd mandatory.
>

Can this be fixed? I've *never* had to futz with initrd.
Probably most systems are the same. It seems a step
backward to make it necessary.

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