* Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-15 18:04]: > I don't know what initramfs will do if it is given root=/dev/ram.
Well, me neither. > If this is a problem, then by all means, let's not pass the option. > If it doesn't matter, what is the harm? > So, the question is this: what do you mean by > > The downside of always passing root=/dev/ram if root is not set in the > environment is that imho starting the Debian initramfs with > root=/dev/ram is worse than starting it without any root option at > all. > > Worse how? The potential problem I see is this: if no root= is passed, initramfs might take some default value, which might be a reasonable choice. However, when it sees a root= it'll probably take that, but it'll probably fall over when it sees root=/dev/ram. Anyway, I don't have the answer to this and I don't have the time to look at the code right now. However, it doesn't matter much anyway because we can always change whether root=/dev/ram is passed by default. Just leave it in for now and if it causes problems we can always remove it. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
