From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Warren Togami Subject: Re: How to find the root partition with root=dhcp root-path=iscsi:::... Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:06:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4A3A741A.5060909@redhat.com> References: <4A3A4F8F.8070204@redhat.com> <4A3A65EC.1010404@redhat.com> <4A3A72E9.3000605@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A3A72E9.3000605-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: initramfs On 06/18/2009 01:01 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote: > On 06/18/2009 06:06 PM, Warren Togami wrote: >> On 06/18/2009 10:30 AM, Harald Hoyer wrote: >>> 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) >> >> I think this was the intent of netroot=dhcp for remote block device >> protocols, then you can define something else in root=. Whether it is >> implemented yet I don't know. >> >> Warren > > Well, but the root-path does not specify the root partition! > Either we extend the iscsi:::: spec with a root partition or we make > requirements like I did above. root= cannot specify the root partition? In any case, nothing really stops us from extending the iscsi RFC spec if we really want to. Warren Togami wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org -- 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