[TriLUG] / is /dev/root and not /dev/sda?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Alan Porter wrote:

> I would bet this has to do with the swap-a-roo that goes on when your 
> initramfs mounts the root partition.

don't use an initramfs. I just boot a kernel that can read 
the disk and then load modules from there. Here's my 
grub_0.99 boot lines

root (hd0,2)
kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.37.6-smp root=/dev/sda3

Joe


> At boot time, the root partition is a ram disk. Somewhere 
> pretty early in that process, they do a "pivotroot".


>

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