Re: wanted: more informative message if root device can't be found/mounted

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Sat Nov 11 2006 - 06:51:24 EST


On Sat, Nov 11, jurriaan wrote:

> kernel panic - unable to mount root device 09:02

These numbers are the root cause.
Use mount by filesystem UUID. On-disk content does unlikely change.
And if it does, you have to reconfigure the bootloader anyway.

All this luxury doesnt belong into the kernel.
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