From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 18:39:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] booting? or is this list dead? ;-) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 00:41:15 -0800 (PST), Goutham Rao said: Goutham> It will depend on your system configuration... if all you Goutham> have on IDE is the ls120 and CD, then I think the CD would Goutham> be /dev/hdc so you should be able to use "eli Goutham> root=/dev/hdc" Don't forget to specify the "rescue" option---otherwise, the boot will get stuck halfway through. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to document this option in README.IA-64 because I didn't know if the CD-ROM is actually bootable until we had the master (and then it was too late to update the README and make a new master...). --david