Bug#697017: root=compute fails at parse_numeric() for lilo compatibility

[Gabriel Klawitter <gabreal@lavabit.com>]

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.109

Dear Maintainer,

I'm using your package to set up a netboot environment where I use a
script at local-bottom to retrieve a image to extract it into a tmpfs.
The kernel command line looks as follows:

rw rootfstype=tmpfs root=compute
imgurl=http://10.0.0.254/profiles/compute.xz ip=eth0 ipv6.disable=1


This is working in any case when the root= option doesn't start with an
hex digit, else parse_numeric tries to parse it as hex value in complete.

I don't know why this [A-Fa-f0-9]*) case switch is necessary, but maybe
it could be made a little more precise.

Unfortunately I don't have a clue how.

I'm using Debian GNU/Linux wheezy up to date.


Thanks and best regards,
Gabriel