Hi, Sven Luther writes:
> Can you check with giving the root device explicitly with : -r root when > creating the initrd ? Same thing. This is because the -r flag is only used for figuring out the necessary modules. > Also, if the same problems happens in d-i when you don't specifify > root=/dev/ram0, and you don't have root=/dev/sda2 as default command > line, then it is also a bug in d-i. #268986, to be precise. > Yeah, and you probably broke all other boxes out there who don't > mirror *your* PReP box setup, I like to think of it as having fixed all PReP boxen that do have the root filesystem on the second partition of the first SCSI disk. As well as having provided a clue to unsuspecting users what that prompt is for in the first place. > not to speak the unexplored repercussion on pmac/chrp boxes, now > that i have fixed the chrp default command line handling. Then maybe you should back out your patch and explore its implications. > The right thing is to fix mkinitrd and not to break everyones > capacity of booting without root= argument. AFAICT, this capacity wasn't there in the first place. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!
