Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Device Numbers, LILO | Date | 15 May 2001 09:04:55 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20010515121635.B5C402F84AC@www.topmail.de> By author: mirabilos <eccesys@topmail.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > >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. > > That's why you have to use append="root=blah" for devfs :) > Really it should have been in IMO. Btw, is LBA support in? > Last time I saw a LILO manpage it stated that "linear" still > is restricted to 16bit (65535 sectors) which normally is much > less than 1k cylinders... >
It's in, but for some strange reason you have to ask for it explicitly with the "lba32" option.
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