From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: How to find the root partition with root=dhcp root-path=iscsi:::... Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:21:33 +0200 Message-ID: <4A3B2E6D.2000809@redhat.com> References: <4A3A4F8F.8070204@redhat.com> <4A3A65EC.1010404@redhat.com> <4A3A72E9.3000605@redhat.com> <1245380152.28792.9.camel@lap75545.ornl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1245380152.28792.9.camel-FqX9LgGZnHWDB2HL1qBt2PIbXMQ5te18@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: David Dillow Cc: Warren Togami , initramfs On 06/19/2009 04:55 AM, David Dillow wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 19:01 +0200, 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. > > The RFC only says we need to boot off the LUN specified, 0 if none > listed. That's your default partition. ok, so the LUN is the partition number? -- 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