Comment 4 for bug 311730

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Hello Tim,

I tested your kernel in http://people.ubuntu.com/~rtg/2.6.28-4.6-build-in-ata, and indeed with it I can boot without an initramfs, which cuts down my boot speed (grub press 'b' to gdm login appearing) from 61 to 43 seconds.

Caveats:
 - specifying root device with root=UUID=DEADBEEF does not work. I remember Scott saying that the kernel itself would be able to handle UUIDs for ext3, but apparently it doesn't? Going back from UUIDs to hardcoded device names would be quite a regression if we'd do it by default.

 - usplash does not start (no big deal, that can be fixed easily with an init script, I can do that)