From: mirabilos <eccesys@topmail.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Device Numbers, LILO
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:16:35 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010515121635.B5C402F84AC@www.topmail.de> (raw)
>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
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-15 12:16 mirabilos [this message]
2001-05-15 15:47 ` Device Numbers, LILO Nico Schottelius
2001-05-15 16:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-15 20:58 ` Tim Fletcher
2001-05-15 21:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
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