Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2

[Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org>]

On Sep 6, 2004, at 4:47 PM, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hollis Blanchard writes:
>
> > The default kernel commandline in the PReP kernel includes
> > "root=/dev/sda2".  Please remove this.
>
> Well, this was selected because it is the default from
> arch/ppc/Kconfig.  While it is not the ideal solution, I think it
> should stay enabled for the time being, because it can easily be
> replaced by running
>
>  perl -pi -e s+/dev/sda2+/dev/foo7+ vmlinuz
>
> on the kernel image.

Sounds like that perl command being run by mkvmlinuz, supplying the 
current partition mounted on / . That shouldn't be too hard right?

-Hollis