Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:41:52 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: Linux Jobs: Update |
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> 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 > ...
Not true. root=/dev/whatever is /not/ a command-line option on i386. It gets stored in the b?zImage header.
See "man rdev".
I suspect that there was once a time when the kernel had no concept of a command-line at all. And anywy, it's very useful be be able to dd a kernel onto a floppy without having to put something like LILO there too.
Matthew.
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