On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 08:31:54PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le lun 14 août 2006 17:37, Sven Luther a écrit : > > > * Only kernel modules specifically needed to reach the default > > > root is included with the image. > > > > Sure, but even with the same modules, it is still good to be allowed > > to override root, be it only to be able to boot into the system and > > rerun yaird or something. > > > Imagine you moved the disk around on the > > same controler, or inserted a new disk and the ordering changed. > > this is indeed the use case that led me to find out about that iritating > problem. At least, yaird should document how to handle such moves: as > it appears that changing fstab and rebuilding the initrd is enough, > well, that /should/ be documented somewhere, and the user should not > have to /guess/ it.
i was told that initrd-tools had a similar hardcoding feature, in the beginning of woody, where it didn't respect bootargs. happy to know how far back yaird has fallen as the Maintainer considers this a wishlist. The usual bootargs kernel bootargs from Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt are a critical feature for any initrd generation tool. documenting the bug doesn't make it better. best regards -- maks
