Bug#696292: For 9p root filesystems, kernel ignores root=$NAME option on command line, and uses /dev/root as mount tag
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 06:50:36PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:38:55AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > When using an initramfs, implementation of the 'root' kernel parameter
> > is the responsibility of the initramfs!
> I'm not using an initramfs. The kernel supports 9p root filesystems
> without one, apart from using "/dev/root" as the mount tag instead of
> the value from the kernel command line.
Except for mips, there exists no non-initramfs Linux kernels in Debian.
Bastian
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