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SubjectRe: Linux Jobs: Update

> Argh. What's the screams all over the place ? You CAN NOT boot Linux without
> command line option. I repeat. You CAN NOT boot Linux without using command
> line option. Never was, never will. You MUST specify at least one option:
> root=blah-blah-blah ... This option is not specifyed as append=... in LiLo
> but, for example, in loadlin you must specify it explicitly. And compiled
> defaults (where you need to RECOMPILE kernel just to reflect changes in
> jumper settings) are kludges. Thus they were removed (not all I afraid).

It has been a while since I used loadlin, but I think you might be wrong.

You can use 'rdev' to set your root disk in kernel image itself,
and thus no need to explictly specify root.




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