On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:52:05PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > any further information on bugs 270321 and 270326? I installed two > PReP systems in the last few days, and put the root filesystem on > /dev/sda3. After that, both booting with root=/dev/sda3 and with no > root option at all worked. Therefore, I am inclined to change the > option from sda2 to sda3 (leaving *something* in so it is easy to set > /dev/ram0 for the installer, or something different altogether) and > close both bug reports.
I still don't understand why you need to put in /dev/ram0 for d-i on prep, but that it works fine without it on all other powerpc subarches. I also have some real trouble understanding the need of a default root= option, since the initrd includes some magic which automatically detects root filesystem used and uses that when doing the pivot_root in the initrd. Maybe you should fill a bug report against initrd-tools because this is not working ? Friendly, Sven Luther
