[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#588675: / left as /dev/root with non-initrd kernel

[Elliott Mitchell]

Just realized I may have made an error when listing the conditions
necessary to reproduce. I am uncertain whether or not a non-initrd kernel
is required to reproduce.

What may instead be the required ingredient is the using the `rdev`
setting to specify the root filesystem. I'll check tommorrow, but I
suspect this problem /may/ not occur if the root filesystem is specified
via the "root=" kernel command-line parameter (alas, the current
initramfs-tools also have a problem with `rdev`, so I couldn't check
that).

This may be attributable to `mount`, perhaps `mount -a` is supposed to be
taking care of this little detail. I'll take a look at this hypothesis...
(if so, sorry for initially lodging this with initscripts, you were the
first candidate that came to mind)


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