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Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>:
> I -STILL- can't figure out why the autoprober doesn't just look in 
> /proc/mounts to figure out who and what our root device and filesystem are.

The version I just released does exactly that.  Well, not exactly; it
actually looks at fstab -- /proc/mounts gives you '/dev/root' rather
than a physical device name in the root entry.
 
> I need to set up a system that boots to an initrd and puts the root
> device lives on a samba server just to confuse eric's autoprober.
> Hmmm...  I wonder if that would work? :)

No.  It only knows about IDE and SCSI root devices at the moment.  As I 
learn how to identify other kinds of root volume it will get smarter.
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