Bug#582858: initramfs-tools: MODULES=dep fails when / is ubifs

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org> [2010-06-08 01:21]:
> Thanks for the patch, Martin.
> Can I apply it already to i-t?

Sure.

> > I'm not claiming that you'll actually be able to boot from ubifs with
> > that ramdisk though.  For that, i-t needs to be taught to know what to
> > do about something like root=ubi0:rootfs.
> 
> I see "root=ubi0:root ubi.mtd=2 rootfstype=ubifs" in the additional
> information section of the original bugreport. Who does evaluate
> this stuff in the guruplug device that's supposed to work?
> And what's behind ubi0:root?

ubi.mtd=2 says that /dev/mtd2 should be used for ubi; this is then
ubi0.  ubi0:root is the root volume.

I'm away this week but I'll try to look into this next week.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/