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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2022-12-21 09:47:46 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2022-12-21 22:15:02 +0100
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gpt-auto-generator: honour rootfstype= and rootflags= kernel cmdline option
Even if root= is not specified on the kernel cmdline, we should honour the other rootXYZ= options. Fixes: #8411 See: #17034
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diff --git a/man/kernel-command-line.xml b/man/kernel-command-line.xml
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@@ -336,11 +336,16 @@
<term><varname>rw</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Configures the root file system and its file system
- type and mount options, as well as whether it shall be
- mounted read-only or read-write initially. For details,
- see
+ <para>Configures the root file system and its file system type and mount options, as well as
+ whether it shall be mounted read-only or read-write initially. For details, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-fstab-generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+
+ <para>If <varname>root=</varname> is not set (or set to <literal>gpt-auto</literal>) the automatic
+ root partition discovery implemented by
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-gpt-auto-generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ will be in effect. In this case <varname>rootfstype=</varname>, <varname>rootflags=</varname>,
+ <varname>ro</varname>, <varname>rw</varname> will be interpreted by
+ <command>systemd-gpt-auto-generator</command>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>