Messages in this thread |  | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 07:56:35 +0200 |
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On Tuesday, 15. May 2001 00:54, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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.
And happily passes a "root=" argument through "append=" for the kernel to evaluate.
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