From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /dev/root changes with 3.17-rc
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:36:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141010133635.GA31817@Nokia-N900> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141010125257.GJ11697@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
On Fri 2014-10-10 21:52:57, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2014, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > I am not sure whether this is a kernel bug, but:
> > > - booting with 3.16 I get
> > > / mounted on /dev/sda6
> > > - booting with 3.17-rc* I get
> > > / mounted on /dev/root
> >
> > Where do you see the this? /proc/mounts?
>
> After loads of testing I found out what is the problem: initramfs.
>
> I normally compile my own kernel with all the drivers built-in,
> and no initramfs ... and in this case, without initrd, it seems that
> / is somehow not remounted to a proper scsi device, but remains
> at /dev/root.
But that was always the case, no? Yes, it would be nice to
print real root device name in /proc/mounts, but it was
"broken" for as far as I can remember...
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-10 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-11 14:45 /dev/root changes with 3.17-rc Norbert Preining
2014-10-10 12:40 ` Pavel Machek
2014-10-10 12:52 ` Norbert Preining
2014-10-10 13:36 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2014-10-12 19:55 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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