Don't only check for block devices, but also for symbolic links.

If we have a symlink, we don't check further if it points to a block device, partially due to klibc's readlink being broken.

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/init b/init
index ce9dcda..0a6aa3f 100644
--- a/init
+++ b/init
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ if [ -z "${nfsroot}" -a "${root}" != "/dev/nfs" ]; then
             /bin/mknod /dev/root b ${BLOCKDEVICE} >/dev/null
             export root="/dev/root"
         fi
-        if [ ! -b "${root}" ]; then
+        if [ ! -b "${root}" -a ! -L "${root}" ]; then
             err "Unable to detect or create root device '${root}'"
             echo "You are being dropped to a recovery shell"
             echo "    Type 'reboot' to reboot"
diff --git a/init_functions b/init_functions
index cdc7a9f..0e501ca 100644
--- a/init_functions
+++ b/init_functions
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ poll_device() {
         seconds=5
     fi
     echo "Waiting ${seconds} seconds for device ${device} ..."
-    while [ ! -b "${device}" -a ${seconds} -gt 0 ]; do
+    while [ ! -b "${device}" -a ! -L "${device}" -a ${seconds} -gt 0 ]; do
         sleep 1
         seconds=$((${seconds}-1))
     done
-    [ -b "${device}" ]
+    [ -b "${device}" -o -L "${device}" ]
 }