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SubjectRe: Initrd problem with 2.6 kernel
"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
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> 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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