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SubjectRe: Which device did I boot from?
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:52:17PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> William Estrada wrote:
>
> >Is there a way to determine which device I have booted from? For
> >example, say I booted from a USB device, can I tell which one? I did
> >not find anything in /proc FS other than the cmdline options.
>
> If you choose the (experimental) CONFIG_EDD option in your kernel then,
> with cooperation of your BIOS, you'll have a /sys/firmware/edd with at
> least some info about the BIOS boot device. For me:

I suppose I should un-mark this as experimental. It's been in the
kernel for a couple years, and shipping enabled in RHEL4 for over a
year with no problems (a recent buggy BIOS workaround the one
exception).

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