On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Steve Crosby <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1. Education ;) > 2. Providing an emergency shell in the event of failure to mount root > filesystem > 3. (not relevant to LFS) Auto-detecting which device the root is on, when the boot device is portable\non-persistent (usb\cdrom\etc) e.g. my LFS can end up as an iso, and run in a VM, or applied to usb stick, therefore the real root device is variable.
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