Bug#588675: / left as /dev/root with non-initrd kernel
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 03:11:45PM -0800, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On 12/02/2015 04:30 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > You're thinking of the wrong bug. #588675 is the bug # for /proc/mounts
> > having "/dev/root" listed as the device for the root filesystem. Your
>
> Indeed, I think I confused this with #656333 ("Please ignore rootfs in
> df output"), which may be related to this one.
So many bugs, so little time. :-/ This actually effected many other
utilities as well. I'm a bit surprised if this is getting fixed in the
kernel, I thought the kernel maintainers had decided "this is the way the
kernel does this, userspace needs to compensate".
> > previous mention indicated you would expect "/dev/sda6" to be there. I'm
> > guessing prior to wheezy, when you were using BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC, you would
> > have been seeing "/dev/hda6" listed as the root device?
>
> Again, I'm afraid I don't remember what I've seen prior to wheezy. The
> system is running 24x7 but I'll try to boot a pre-wheezy image (or
> something with BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC enabled) the next time this machine is
> rebooted and see if the actual disk or /dev/rootfs is displayed.
Thanks. I'm pretty sure it will show the actual disk, but another
confirmation will help.
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