Bug#283919: Wrong solution!

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 01:27:50PM +0100, Alex Owen wrote:
> tag 283919 - fixed
> tag 283919 - pending
> thanks
> 
> This proposed patch (or somthing verry simmilar) was applied to
> initrd-tools shortly before the sarge release. However the application
> of the "fix" caused a release critical bug... #310316 which caused the
> patch to be reverted. That is why I'm now removing the fixed and
> pending tags!
> 
> The bug title is still valid: "initrd-tools: Should warn if root
> device is not found".
> However as the discussion in bug #310316 shows checking for "$rootdev
> = 0" is not the was to find out if the root device has been found or
> not!
> 
> I hope this helps track the progress of this issue.

Thanks for clearing that up. 

Do you have any ideas on a valid check for no root dev?

-- 
Horms