From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harry Kalogirou Subject: RE: Elks Distribution Date: 30 May 2002 16:01:05 +0300 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1022763559.17922.58.camel@cool> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-7" To: Stefan de Konink Cc: Dan Olson , Linux 8086 =D4=E7=ED =D0=E5=EC, 30-05-2002 =F3=F4=E9=F2 10:51, =EF/=E7 Stefan de K= onink =DD=E3=F1=E1=F8=E5:=20 > > How does Linux handle that? Does it just look at /etc/fstab on the= device > > it booted from, and see where it says root is? Maybe it's a comple= x > > system or something, but I know one kernel image will work with man= y > > different root devices. >=20 > Isn't it possible to give a / param at boot time (in the bootloader), > maybe thats an easier way to implement in compare to the core > modifications. >=20 > Greetings, > Stefan de Konink >=20 Maybe a utility that changes the bytes that specify the root partition=20 in the kernel image, will do. Harry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html