From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@bmsi.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Determine boot disk device name...
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 22:12:39 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1012012208410.27181@bmsred.bmsi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288034225.4299.14.camel@sc.lan>
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> > For starters, how can I determine the physical device name of
> > current/active boot disk in Linux?
> [...]
>
> Please clarify what you mean by "physical device" and "boot disk"
> especially when refered to as "current/active".
I think he means the device that will be used at the next boot (where
"device" can be network), which is of course a BIOS question. He may be coming
from AIX where there is a command to query and set the boot device list in the
BIOS config.
Such a utility is easy with openfirmware. It is feasible with proprietary
firmware, but has to know about a lot of variations on CMOS layout.
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Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-02 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-24 2:58 [linux-lvm] Determine boot disk device name Jon Price
2010-10-25 18:11 ` Malahal Naineni
2010-10-25 19:21 ` Alexander Skwar
2010-10-25 21:28 ` Malahal Naineni
2010-10-26 8:29 ` Alexander Skwar
2010-10-26 18:41 ` Malahal Naineni
2010-10-26 18:55 ` Ray Morris
2010-10-25 19:16 ` Stephane Chazelas
2010-12-02 3:12 ` Stuart D. Gathman [this message]
2010-10-27 5:52 ` Luca Berra
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