Maybe give a _warning_ (rather than an error) if "$rootdev = 0" but this is not great for the case that $rootdev should be zero (see bug #310316). Alternativly we could wait untill after the call to mount_root (or whatever it is) and check that a root filesystem has been mounted on /mnt. Something like this ? $INIT would normally be /sbin/init but if there is a kernel command line parameter to say different then we should place that in $INIT first...
[ -x /mnt$INIT ] || ( echo "WARNING: $INIT not found on root device major=$major minor=$minor" ; sleep 5) Just a thought... Alex Owen On 22/08/05, Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 01:27:50PM +0100, Alex Owen wrote: > > The bug title is still valid: "initrd-tools: Should warn if root > > device is not found". > > However as the discussion in bug #310316 shows checking for "$rootdev > > = 0" is not the was to find out if the root device has been found or > > not! > > Do you have any ideas on a valid check for no root dev?
