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Can you "rdev vmlinux /dev/hda1" a mips kernel and have it work (have
the kernel recognize that its root fs is /dev/hda1 without passing any
command line arguments)?  I tried it and it doesn't seem to work, unless
you have to specify offset or other options that I don't know about.

Pete