Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:32:30 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Initrd problem with 2.6 kernel |
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"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote: > > There is a chicken and egg problem with initrd on 2.6. When > root=/dev/xxx is passed to kernel, kernel will call try_name, which > uses /sys/block/drive/dev, to find out the device number for ROOT_DEV. > The problem is /sys/block/drive may not exist if the driver is loaded > by /linuxrc in initrd. As the result, /linuxrc can't use > /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev to determine the root device number.
You should be able to use the numeric identifier:
root=03:02
that's major:minor, and it recently changed. In 2.6.0-test2 that would be "0302".
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