On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 21:03 -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 05:48:20PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > > On 01/31/2018 04:07 PM, Mimi Zohar wrote: > > > On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 13:32 -0600, Rob Landley wrote:>> (The old "I > > > configured in tmpfs and am using rootfs but I want that > > rootfs > > >> to be ramfs, not tmpfs" code doesn't seem to be a real-world concern, > > >> does > > >> it?) > > > > > > I must be missing something. Which systems don't specify "root=" on > > > the boot command line. > > > > Any system using initrd or initramfs? > > > > Don't a lot of initramfs setups use root= to tell the initramfs which > actual root file system to switch to after early boot?
With your patch and specifying "root=tmpfs", dracut is complaining: dracut: FATAL: Don't know how to handle 'root=tmpfs' dracut: refusing to continue Mimi
