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Bug#588675: marked as done (SCSI subsystem loses name of root device on boot)

Your message dated Fri, 10 Jun 2016 23:28:20 +0100
with message-id <1465597700.3529.119.camel@decadent.org.uk>
and subject line Re: Bug#588675: Summary of observations of #588675
has caused the Debian Bug report #588675,
regarding SCSI subsystem loses name of root device on boot
to be marked as done.

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Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-61

I'm guessing some step is being done by the initial ramdisk scripts,
with Etch that step was also done by the regular init script; whereas
in Lenny it got removed from the initscripts.

$ head -2 /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext3 ro,errors=continue,data=journal 0 0
$

This isn't huge, but it does cause some problems with utilities that look
for the currently mounted root filesystem (they can't get the device
name).


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On Fri, 2016-06-10 at 15:09 -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:19:47PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Are you using LILO? ??Are you specifying the root device by name or
> > UUID?
> 
> I'm quite certain that is completely irrelevant.  Either of those, or
> even allowing the rdev field in the kernel image should result in the
> device being shown for / in /proc/mounts.  On the most recent boot of
> this machine though, "root=/dev/sda1" is in /proc/cmdline, yet the
> line
> in /proc/mounts is "/dev/root / ext3 ..."
> 
> The only common factor is the SCSI subsystem.

I didn't ask for your opinion.  Closing, this won't be fixed.

Ben.

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