Messages in this thread |  | | From | mirabilos <> | Subject | Re: Device Numbers, LILO | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 14:16:35 +0200 (MET DST) |
| |
>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...
-mirabilos -- by telnet - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |