Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2001 19:00:21 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 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.
Oh, _that_ one. <shrug> pass rootname=driver!name (or whatever syntax you prefer) to the kernel and call do_mount() instead of sys_mknod() in prepare_namespace() (rootfs patch). BFD.
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