Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2001 15:54:33 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > Except that Linus wont hand out major numbers, which means I can't even boot > > > > simply off such a device. I bet the vendors in question dont think the sun > > > > shines out of linus backside any more. > > > > > > Not really. Special-casing for mounting root is trivially solvable. BTDT, > > > and you've reviewed the patch. > > > > And lilo ? > > LILO uses BIOS, for fsck sake. It couldn't care less for device numbers > on the kernel side. Ask Andries how much do they have in common with > BIOS drive numbers. >
That's not the issue. LILO takes whatever you pass to root= and converts it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time. An idiotic practice on the part of LILO, in my opinion, that ought to have been fixed a long time ago.
-hpa
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