Bug#340759: doesn't honour root=, fails when disk changes from /dev/hda to /dev/hdc

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 11:58:09PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:48:52 +0100
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 08:44:38PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> > > So, all in all: I agree this is not great, but disagree that the
> > > goal of yaird must be to behave exactly like initrd-tools.
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> > Well, i kind of disagree, if the user provides a root= argument, then
> > he probably knows what he does, and if he is wrong, then too bad for
> > him, but chances are good that he knows what he was doing :)
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> So what is our disagreement?

Mmm, i am confused now, from my understanding i gather that yaird right now
doesn't respect the root= argument when explicitly given, and altough you find
this problematic, you judge it a minor issue. I (and Martin) argue that it is
an important feature to be able to override yaird by setting a root= argument.
Important if not critical, as asking people to boot into d-i and do hand-stuff
to make it work is hardly nice.

So, our disagreement is mostly in the priority of this.

Notice, that one solution would be for yaird to generate a rescue-initramfs
which contains itself and all that is needed to run it (mount /sys, include
perl and co, etc) and then regenerate the minimal ramdisk, altough this would
mostly amount to having a initramfs-tools-like tool.

Friendly,

Sven Luther