Re: Can't upgrade RAIDframe system -- won't boot from CD

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Simon Burge wrote:
> Mouse wrote:
> > Maybe there needs to be an RF_SUPPRESS_AUTOCONFIGURED_ROOT option
> > (though probably spelled more briefly :) which installer kernels use.
>
> Maybe the opposite might be more useful, to allow other future LVMs'
> auto-root mechanisms to be sidestepped without needing new options each
> time.  Something like a REALLY_BOOT_FROM_THE_BOOT_MEDIA option but with
> a better name :).

We already have MEMORY_DISK_IS_ROOT.  Perhaps BOOT_DISK_IS_ROOT would
be a reasonable name for a new option.

--apb (Alan Barrett)