Re: [PATCH] Fix probing for root on i386-pc where grub files are on same file system as root filesystem

[Jerone Young]

Interesting. I will try this again. I was working with I believe
fedora core 6. I noticed this was happening. It is not a symlink on
fedora core 6. This may have something to do with udev.

On 2/14/07, Yoshinori K. Okuji <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Monday 12 February 2007 08:42, Jerone Young wrote:
> > This patch fixes the situation with i386-pc where grub-probe &
> > grube-setup are searching for the root fs for grub files  and they
> > happen to be on the same file system as the root ("/") filesystem. If
> > this is the case if when probing /dev , if the partition is a sd* it
> > will not find it because it will find /dev/root first (this is a
> > mistake).
>
> I don't understand. In my system, /dev/root is a symlink, and find_root_device
> skips symlinks. Why does any problem happen?
>
> Thanks,
> Okuji
>
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