From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:04:12 +1100 Message-Id: <199812152304.KAA14476@tango.anu.edu.au> From: Paul Mackerras To: bh40@calva.net CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-reply-to: <19981215143756.003692@mail.mipsys.com> (message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt on Tue, 15 Dec 1998 14:37:56 +0100) Subject: Re: BootX, ramdisk and root device Reply-to: Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au References: <19981215143756.003692@mail.mipsys.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 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. [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]