From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Which device did I boot from?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:59:37 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604151059.47733.arvidjaar@mail.ru> (raw)
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> > Is there a way to determine which device I have booted from? For
> > example, say I booted from a USB device, can I tell which one? I did
> > not find anything in /proc FS other than the cmdline options.
>
> If you choose the (experimental) CONFIG_EDD option in your kernel then,
> with cooperation of your BIOS, you'll have a /sys/firmware/edd with at
> least some info about the BIOS boot device. For me:
I am sorry but it does not tell about boot device. It contains all hard disks
enumerated via EDD interface. I do not see any information
under /sys/firmware/edd that would have allowed to guess boot device.
- -andrey
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next reply other threads:[~2006-04-15 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-15 6:59 Andrey Borzenkov [this message]
2006-04-15 9:43 ` Which device did I boot from? Rene Herman
2006-04-15 10:30 ` Andrey Borzenkov
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2006-04-14 21:13 William Estrada
2006-04-14 21:52 ` Rene Herman
2006-04-15 4:25 ` Matt Domsch
2006-04-16 17:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
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