Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:39:44 +0400 | From | Oleg Drokin <> | Subject | Re: "[PATCH] devfs: switch over ubd to ->devfs_name" breaks ubd/sysfs |
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Hello!
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:34:02PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 04:30:39PM +0400, Oleg Drokin wrote: > > fake major is easy, it allows you to register ubd device on two majors. > > This is useful e.g. for installing distros inside of UML. > > Distro installers are tend to look for IDE disk on major 3, for example. > > Then if you boot with ubd=3, installer will find the disk ;) > Not that I would argue in favour of using devfs, but to make this fake > major stuff useful with devfs you'd have to use the devfs entries of > the faked devices. So instead of the ubd_fake devfs names you'd
There is separate option for this. Though it should be fixed, it seems.
But mind you, installers I've seen do not use devfs.
> better add a string boot option that'll get set into ->devfs_name for > those.
There is. It is called "fakeide" ;)
This one should be fixed it seems.
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