Bug#296966: adding "root=LABEL=something" to bootparams generates a dash error

[Delian Krustev <krustev@krustev.net>]

Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7
Version: 2.6.8-13
Severity: normal


I wonder if it's fixable since Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README says
that root=LABEL=something is unusable with devfs. However I suspect a bug in
the scripts contained in the initrd. The error displayed is:

scripts/ext3-add-journal.sh 27: arith: syntax error: "0x"
sbin/init 425: arith: syntax error: "0x"

which seems like incorrect quoting.

Cheers,
And thanks for the great work!
Delian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7 depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.77     tools to create initrd image for p
ii  module-init-tools             3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

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