On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > So, if I understand you correctly, the reason you can't fix this is > because you have no desire to support a configuration that was not > produced by debian-installer?
well your usage falls under advanced messing with your box, so i'd expect such a user to be able to read man initramfs-tools to find the corresponding bootflag. > By this same logic, it seems to me that debian-installer should also > set 'rootfstype' on the kernel command line, so that the initramfs does > not have to detect that either. no the logic is not the same. the fstype can be probed in a generic way whereas you are asking for a hardcoding for a special box. the fstype can be probed as the corresponding root bootarg is passed to initramfs and yes d-i takes care of that one. kind regards -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
