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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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