[systemd-devel] [HEADS-UP] Discoverable Partitions Spec

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

2014-03-08 1:37 GMT+06:00 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> And for the root disk we declare explicitly that installers may only
> drop the root= param from the kernel cmdline if the OS is installed as
> first root partition on the disk. Otherwise it *must* specify it to make
> sure the right partition is found at boot.

I see a potential problem here.

Even if this partition is the first root partition now, there is no
guarantee that it will remain to be the first root partition after one
frees an existing data partition (that happened to go before root) and
installs the next linux distro on it.

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Alexander E. Patrakov