Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2001 17:39:09 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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Alan Cox writes: > > 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. > > Yet another 2.5 project. If Linus wants to go play with name driven > devices and you want to help him great, but if he'd care to put out > linux-2.5.0.tar.gz _before_ starting that would be good for all of > us
I use LILO and I pass a devfs name for the ROOT fs. You just need to pass the name as a string. If you type it at the LILO prompt, it gets passed as a string (and thus devfs will use it to descend the tree). Also, you can put in /etc/lilo.conf: append = "root=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2"
and it will pass the string. Works nicely.
Regards,
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