Comment 4 for bug 19609

(In reply to comment #2)
> BTW, A work around for now is to add
>
> ramdisk=/usr/sbin/mkinitrd

A better workarround is to add your root device to the append="" or addappend=""
line in lilo.conf.

e.g. mine looks like:

append="ramdisk_size=32768 nmi_watchdog=1"
serial=0,9600n8

image=/vmlinuz
        addappend="root=/dev/mapper/nsys-root"
        initrd=/initrd.img
        label=Linux
        read-write

This results in a kernel cmdline:

# cat /proc/cmdline
auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux rw root=fd00 ramdisk_size=32768 nmi_watchdog=1
root=/dev/mapper/nsys-root

root is passed twice, but neither the kernel nor the initramfs scripts seem to mind.

Andreas