Re: Using udev to boot off a USB device

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James Cheng wrote:
> My solution was launch the Linux kernel with a ramdisk. Instead of
> passing in root=/dev/sda1, I pass in the UUID of the primary boot
> device. In my ramdisk, I run udev. I find the usb device that
> corresponds to the given UUID and then switch_root to it.
>
> How does this approach sound? Are there any obvious alternative
> approaches that I missed?

That sounds like the usual approach used by most distros etc.
It certainly is the most flexible.

-jim
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