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Re: [patch] MI root filesystem detection



On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 06:50:18PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> dyoung%pobox.com@localhost (David Young) writes:
> 
> >At least on i386, the bootloader passes both BTINFO_BOOTWEDGE-
> >and BTINFO_BOOTDISK-type information to the kernel, but the
> >_BOOTWEDGE information supercedes the _BOOTDISK information: thus the
> >booted_partition is left at 0, and if the kernel fails to match the
> >_BOOTWEDGE info to a wedge it blithely selects the 0th partition on the
> >booted_device for its root filesystem.
> 
> The MD code should pass the proper information, there is no need to fix up the
> error in the MI part.

You have a patch for that, right?  Will you commit it?

Dave
 
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