Bug#382788: [Yaird-devel] Bug#382788: yaird does not uses the kernel command like to find out the root partition

[maximilian attems]

severity 382788 serious
stop see justification below

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:39:09AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:17:55 +0200 Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> 
> >   Instead, it uses a hardcoded value he takes from /etc/fstab
> > presumably, that makes a system where you rearraged the partition
> > completely impossible to boot, if you didn't faked the next /etc/fstab
> > and regenerated the initrd.
> > 
> >   Since I use grub, and if I do forget to change the menu.lst it has a
> > console to do so, I can always boot. the preliminary extraction of the
> > initrd then works, but the switch root just fails because it does not
> > finds the correct root, whereas it on the damn kernel command line !
> 
> Correct. That's a limitation in the yaird design: An abolute minimal
> initrd image is composed, based on your current setup. Only kernel
> modules required to access your root filesystem is included on the
> image, and only the devices needed are created.

even initrd-tools parses the boot cmdline.
initrd-tools allowed to hardcode the root, but a different root
bootarg would override that.
 
ignoring /proc/cmdline root bootarg is a critical rc bug for any
init of an initrd/initramfs generator. filed at severity serious
to raise awareness of that bug.

-- 
maks