Hello,
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 04:10:52PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
I was considering extending the kernel command-line option root=PARTUUID= to also support MBR (NT disk signatures). I was thinking of a syntax along the lines of:
root=PARTUUID=UUUUUUUU-PP[/PARTNROFF=%d]
... where UUUUUUUU is the hex representation of the NT disk signature, and PP is the hex representation of the partition number. Like GPT, /PARTNROFF could be used too if desired.
Related, I was thinking of changing struct partition_meta_info's uuid field to be a string, so that it could simply be strcmp'd against the UUID value on the kernel command-line. That way, the type of the UUID is irrelevant.
Does anyone have any objection to that?
Wouldn't that be able to break setups which work currently?
Thanks.