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

Andrew Morton
2001-05-19T09:16:54Z

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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