From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: How to find the root partition with root=dhcp root-path=iscsi:::... Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:30:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4A3A4F8F.8070204@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" If we have root=dhcp and root-path from dhcp with "iscsi::... " nothing is know about the partition where root lives in. RFC: provide a pre-mount fallback, which tries to mount /dev/disk/by-label/\x2f (LABEL=/) /dev/disk/by-label/ROOT (LABEL=ROOT) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html