Re: [patch] replacing "/dev/root" in /proc/mounts

Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
07 Oct 1999 13:56:53 +0200

Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com> writes:

|> Anyway, I noticed the following
|>
|> [andersen@dillweed andersen]$ cat /proc/mounts
|> /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
|> proc /proc proc rw 0 0
|>
|> It claims the root device is /dev/root. Ugh, at reboot time, you can't
|> remount /dev/root ro (since there isn't really a /dev/root), so you
|> can't get a clean reboot.

What's wrong with "ln -s real-root-dev /dev/root"?

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