On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 01:54:58PM +0800, Zhang Yanfei wrote: > With no commandline, can the new kernel boot? > I tried in my box and the new kernel just panicked for it cannot > find a root= argument in its commandline. I am sure the kernel boot, rootfs_initcall(populate_rootfs) in initramfs.c well populate the root fs, and there is a /init in initramfs, this /init will mount the really root device, and the system is running.