From f2d34fd9435c7e60cb5189d036efe9abfc911862 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Drewry Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 16:21:08 -0700 Subject: Documentation: add pointer to name_to_dev_t for root= values Update kernel-parameters.txt to point users to the authoritative comment for name_to_dev_t. In addition, updates other places where some name_to_dev_t behavior was discussed. All other references to root= appear to be for explicit sample usage or just side comments when discussing other kernel parameters. Signed-off-by: Will Drewry Cc: Kay Sievers Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/m68k') diff --git a/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt b/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt index c93bed66e25d..97d45f276fe6 100644 --- a/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt @@ -129,6 +129,20 @@ decimal 11 is the major of SCSI CD-ROMs, and the minor 0 stands for the first of these. You can find out all valid major numbers by looking into include/linux/major.h. +In addition to major and minor numbers, if the device containing your +root partition uses a partition table format with unique partition +identifiers, then you may use them. For instance, +"root=PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF". It is also +possible to reference another partition on the same device using a +known partition UUID as the starting point. For example, +if partition 5 of the device has the UUID of +00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF then partition 3 may be found as +follows: + PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF/PARTNROFF=-2 + +Authoritative information can be found in +"Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt". + 2.2) ro, rw ----------- -- cgit v1.2.1