Some devices, like md, may create partitions only at first access,
so allow root= to be set to a valid non-existant partition of an
existing disk. This applies only to non-initramfs root mounting.

This fixes a regression from 2.6.24 which did allow this to happen and
broke some users machines :(
Acked-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: NJoao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>