Bug#340759: doesn't honour root=, fails when disk changes from /dev/hda to /dev/hdc
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severity 340759 minor
thanks
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 09:52:08 +0100
Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > Thanks for the clarification. It does seem from a later posting,
> > however, that your view is not necessarily shared with Martin.
>
> I don't think so, and Martin will confirm that.
Was I dreaming again, or did he in fact lower the severity of this bug?
> > If it is a bug to not behave in all areas like (intended for)
> > initrd-tools, then there is really no sense in making yaird at all:
>
> Well, the design goal is to behave like a proper non-initrd kernel in
> most respect and have the user not really see a difference. In this
> way, respecting root= in all case would be similar to having a
> non-ramdisk kernel with some modules builtin (the ones in the
> ramdisk), and will naturally fail if root is somewhere else, but in
> all case, the user can set any root= kind argument he fancies. If the
> module for his root device is not in the ramdisk, this is expected
> behavior if it fails.
Ah, thanks: You just convinced me that this is a bug (so raising
severity slightly), although still not a serious one.
- Jonas
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