From: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 089 release
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:02:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1144292533.7077.0.camel@quest.netsplit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060403171123.GA24860@vrfy.org>
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On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 21:36 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Apr 05, Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> > In the initramfs, we exercise a little more caution; making sure that we
> > only probe PCI IDE or SCSI controllers first before we move on to
> > probing for USB buses. The reasoning for this is that we don't want
> > someone's fast USB pen drive beating their SATA or SCSI disk to
> > getting /dev/sda1
> Why would this be a bad?
>
root=/dev/sda1 ... "uh, why did it try and mount my iPod as the root
disk?"
(Orthogonal to the "use UUID/Label" argument).
Scott
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-06 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-03 17:11 [ANNOUNCE] udev 089 release Kay Sievers
2006-04-04 19:46 ` David Gómez
2006-04-04 19:51 ` Kay Sievers
2006-04-04 19:56 ` David Gómez
2006-04-04 20:19 ` Kay Sievers
2006-04-04 23:25 ` Scott James Remnant
2006-04-05 18:51 ` Kay Sievers
2006-04-05 19:33 ` Scott James Remnant
2006-04-05 19:36 ` Marco d'Itri
2006-04-06 0:54 ` juuso.alasuutari
2006-04-06 3:02 ` Scott James Remnant [this message]
2006-04-06 3:12 ` Greg KH
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