PCMCIA/CF device probe order issue

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 13:30 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 13:04 +0200, Christian Zoz wrote:
> > mount by label or uuid.
> > Or use udev for persistent device nodes.
> 
> You'll have to forgive me as I seem to be missing something obvious
> here. Can you give me an example of how I specify that I would like to
> mount the microdrive in the second compact flash slot as the root device
> from the kernel commandline? (regardless of any card present or not
> present in the first slot)
> 
> Sadly, I'm not in a position to be able to easily use a initrd.

Thinking further, I suspect disk labels could correctly find the root
partition and then it becomes a userspace problem. I'll experiment with
this, thanks.

Its a shame there isn't a neater solution though and I'm still open to
other solutions...

Richard