Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Mon, 14 May 2001 22:59:17 -0700 | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > 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. > > And happily passes a "root=" argument through "append=" for the kernel to > evaluate. >
Sure, but it's not the way they have convinced users to set their systems up.
-hpa
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