From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au>
To: bh40@calva.net
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: BootX, ramdisk and root device
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:04:12 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199812152304.KAA14476@tango.anu.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19981215143756.003692@mail.mipsys.com> (message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt on Tue, 15 Dec 1998 14:37:56 +0100)
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net> wrote:
> I was wondering: Is there any case where a user may want to have both
> "Use RamDisk" and a specified root device ? Should I ignore the content
Not normally.
> of the root device field when ram disk is used ? (It still possible to
Yes, I think so.
> Similar issue: should I lookup and remove any "video=xxxx" option from
> the kenrnel args prior to booting the kernel when "no video driver" is
> checked or is this harmless ?
This one is harmless, since the video=ofonly option will override
other video=xxx options.
Paul.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-15 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-15 13:37 BootX, ramdisk and root device Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1998-12-15 23:04 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
1998-12-16 23:21 ` Nathan Hurst
1998-12-17 15:46 ` nathan ingersoll
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