[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] initramfs-framework: better error reporting for invalid root boot parameter

Otavio Salvador otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br
Fri Sep 18 17:41:13 UTC 2015


On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly at intel.com> wrote:
> When the "boot" parameter refers to a non-existent device, the only
> visible output at normal log levels was a rather confusing:
>    ERROR: There's no '/dev' on rootfs.
>
> That's because the actual error, not being able to find the root
> device, was only a debug message, which gets ignored in the default
> mode.
>
> Promoting the "root '$bootparam_root' doesn't exist." message from
> "debug" to "msg" gives sufficient context to understand the error. A
> more intrusive change would be to change also the control flow.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly at intel.com>

Acked-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>

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