From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Device Numbers, LILO
Date: 15 May 2001 09:04:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9drk37$51s$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010515121635.B5C402F84AC@www.topmail.de>
Followup to: <20010515121635.B5C402F84AC@www.topmail.de>
By author: mirabilos <eccesys@topmail.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> >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...
>
It's in, but for some strange reason you have to ask for it explicitly
with the "lba32" option.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-15 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-15 12:16 Device Numbers, LILO mirabilos
2001-05-15 15:47 ` Nico Schottelius
2001-05-15 16:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-05-15 20:58 ` Tim Fletcher
2001-05-15 21:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
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