On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 03:29:30AM +0530, Pritam Baral wrote: > Why does the kernal look for dev/ inside /root/ ? /root here is not the /root you're thinking of. In the initramfs, /root is where the real root filesystem (/) is mounted until such time as the initramfs finishes its job and enters the real root. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]