Re: GPT attributes in dkwedge [PATCH]

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 17 Sept 2023 at 23:25, Robert Elz <kre%munnari.oz.au@localhost> wrote:

> [...]
>
> That is what you MUST NOT do, BOOTME has nothing whatever to do
> with what is root.   That's the part that must be done some other way.
>
> (The bit where the flag was copied into the wedge info was just a
> layer violation, and easy to avoid, as your patch showed, that was
> never the real issue.)
>
> Fortunately, it seems (as demonstrated by later discussion) that the
> "other way" already exists, and none of this is needed at all.

Apologies for a potentially dumb question.

Specifically in the absence of any other information (empty devname?
etc), would it not be reasonable to fall back to the bootme marked
filesystem as a root filesystem candidate? I'm thinking about
minimally configured disks moving between machines

Thanks

David