possible mountroot regression

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Oliver Pinter wrote:

> On 10/19/11, Olivier Smedts <olivier at gid0.org> wrote:
>> 2011/10/19 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net>:
>>> On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>>
>>>> Would you be able to commit a variant of this patch sans the 'x' part?
>>>
>>> Yes, soonish. If people like the 'x' change I can do that in a followup
>>> commit as well. I just need to know if people like it or not...
>>
>> Yes, it's useful. But why not "q" for "quit" ? Just a bikeshed color idea...
>>
> eXit :)

In some languages...

More important to me is the "the Abort manual input" which tells what it 
does but not why the user would want to do that.

Abort manual input... and then what?  Hang?  Retry?  Panic?  Reboot? 
Resume attempting to mount the root device that was expected?