Re: [PATCH] Fix probing for root on i386-pc where grub files are on same file system as root filesystem

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Monday 12 February 2007 08:42, Jerone Young wrote:
> This patch fixes the situation with i386-pc where grub-probe &
> grube-setup are searching for the root fs for grub files  and they
> happen to be on the same file system as the root ("/") filesystem. If
> this is the case if when probing /dev , if the partition is a sd* it
> will not find it because it will find /dev/root first (this is a
> mistake).

I don't understand. In my system, /dev/root is a symlink, and find_root_device 
skips symlinks. Why does any problem happen?

Thanks,
Okuji