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* Erik Speckman <especkman+report...@gmail.com> [2013-08-04 23:45]:
> 8. Read through mkinitramfs scripts and found that a hook installed by the
> flash-kernel package was responsible for the hook script that was setting
> "root=/dev/root" in conf/param.con.
> If flash-kernel isn't necessary/required on my device, I would expect it to
> detect that fact rather than rendering my system in an unbootable state.
How about this? Erik, can you test the patch?
diff --git a/initramfs-tools/hooks/flash_kernel_set_root
b/initramfs-tools/hooks/flash_kernel_set_root
index 2a313c7..9fb4bcc 100755
--- a/initramfs-tools/hooks/flash_kernel_set_root
+++ b/initramfs-tools/hooks/flash_kernel_set_root
@@ -102,11 +102,13 @@ if [ "$blsr" = "no" ]; then
# provide a default.
install -d $DESTDIR/conf/conf.d
echo "ROOT=\"$rootdev\"" > $DESTDIR/conf/conf.d/default_root
-else
+elif [ "$blsr" = "yes" ]; then
# The boot loader passes a bogus root= (e.g. root=/dev/ram), so
# override the command line parameter.
install -d $DESTDIR/conf
echo "ROOT=\"$rootdev\"" >> $DESTDIR/conf/param.conf
+else
+ echo "Warning: device $machine not supported" >&2
fi
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