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Re: how does an initramfs handle the "root=" boot time param?

05-09-2007, Robert P. J. Day:
>
>   i'm reading the "init" script contained in my current kernel's
> initramfs, and i can see how installing that kernel ran a post-install
> script that created "init" and hard-coded it to refer to my actual
> root filesystem.
>
>   so what happens when i boot and specify an alternate root FS with
> "root="?  somehow, that has to override the hardcoded partition name
> in "init", no?  when is that done?  thanks.

Nothing unless `init=` is alternate. But maybe there are boot init scripts,
which handle that.
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