On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 10:23 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
David Zeuthen wrote:
> Code in the initramfs shouldn't have to be modified just because you
> throw extra kernel modules in. Seriously. The initramfs isn't hard, it's
> a solved problem [0], it goes like this
>
> - figure out UUID or LABEL [1] for rootfs. Write out an udev rule that
> will create a /dev/root symlink to said device
[...]
> [1] : Or device name though it should never ever be necessary to use
> device names.
How do you get the UUID or LABEL or filesystem on the device without
knowing the device name?
You know it at initramfs generation time and you include that
information in the initramfs image.
David