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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:52:47 +0200 maximilian attems wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> > Please provide pointers to official statements supporting the claim
> > that this is a release-critical issue.
> 
> wooow.
> 
> any hand build "monolithic" kernel mounts root thanks to bootarg
> root=/dev/sdaX
> 
> (yes back in 2.4 time it made a hole lot of sense to hand build your
>  kernels due to strange inter dependencies of the subsystems and
>  without building all subsystems you got better performance)
> 
> so there is a _big_ build your own kernel linux tradition,
> there is even a chapter on it for the d-i manual "further steps" or
> so.. now tell all of them that yaird is ah so clever to be able to
> ignore the kernel commandline.
> 
> you should check your own docs, on your website you have an hole
> section "Kernel command line parameters" where you state to parse
> ydebug for debug purpose, init, ro and rw, but not _yet_ root.
> 
> it is expected from any initrd/initramfs generator, that they are
> able to parse the important boot kernel-parameters.txt. Any 
> mkinitrd generated initrd/initramfs can do that across debian, 
> fedora, gentoo, mandrake, rh, suse.

How do any of the above make this bug release-critical?

No need to waste time writing long explanation to get it through my
thick skull, just point me to relevant policy definition or
release-team statement, please.


 - Jonas

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