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

From: Andrew Morton (andrewm@uow.edu.au)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 05:11:45 EDT

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    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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