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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: RE: Elks Distribution
Date: 28 May 2002 13:01:36 +0100
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On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 11:51, Neil Holmes wrote:
> looked too far yet). I am assuming that, because I am setting /dev/bda1 as
> the root location when I build my kernel (at this stage of development),

I'd forgotten that one. Right from the start the 386 Linux let you
modify the root device/swap device by patching the program header. I
guess we need something similar in ELKS so you can find and patch
rootdev, or override it from a config value of some sort ?