On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:24:17AM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:13:23PM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote: > > Some kernel parameters are auto-generated. eg: root= (always has been > > broken). Anyway, the old version of cmdline.c added these auto-generated > Can you explain in what way root= was broken? It was blindly copying from the environment variable a string looking like dksc(0,1,2). This should be translated (somehow) to something looking like /dev/sdb1. This would have to be done after the hard disk probes. Does Linux have some other notation for addressing devices by their location on the bus? (I recall a flamewar on the topic...) Cheers, Andrew
