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SubjectRe: Which device did I boot from?
FromArjan van de Ven <>
DateSun, 16 Apr 2006 19:49:07 +0200
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 14:13 -0700, William Estrada wrote:
> Hi group,
> 
>   Is there a way to determine which device I have booted from?  

that may be really hard; EDD can tell you what disk your bios will try,
but remember that you may have booted from USB (not covered by EDD) or
even ethernet (using PXE). The kernel doesn't know... since all it knows
is that the bootloader put it into memory somewhere

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