boot /dev/disk0.rootfs would always fail: Nothing bootable found on '/dev/disk0.rootfs' Nothing bootable found boot /mnt/disk0.rootfs and boot disk0.rootfs would however work. This can be surprising to users, so just skip over /dev if supplied. Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I am not sure why this wasn't the case before. Any ambiguity in doing it this way? Change still needs to be tested. --- common/blspec.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/common/blspec.c b/common/blspec.c index 8c7970da8915..b70332a54c28 100644 --- a/common/blspec.c +++ b/common/blspec.c @@ -782,6 +782,9 @@ int blspec_scan_devicename(struct bootentries *bootentries, const char *devname) pr_debug("%s: %s\n", __func__, devname); + /* Support both boot /dev/disk0.rootfs and boot disk0.rootfs */ + devname += str_has_prefix(devname, "/dev/"); + device_detect_by_name(devname); cdev = cdev_by_name(devname); -- 2.39.2