Use of directories to hold root?

You pass the kernel the root option to specify the root partition. Is there a way to identify a directory in that partition that holds the root or something equivalent to this? Something like: kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 root-directory=ker2621 If you independently examined /dev/sda3 you wou

Re: Use of directories to hold root?

On Saturday 11 August 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Aug 10 2007 17:08, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> On Aug 10 2007 17:24, Mark Cannon wrote: > >>> You pass the kernel the root option to specify the root partition. > >>> I