From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 02:00:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 01:59:55 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:40722 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 01:59:41 -0400 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Message-ID: <3B00C5B5.C9738219@transmeta.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:59:17 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Neukum CC: Alexander Viro , Alan Cox , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants In-Reply-To: <3B006229.EA65A868@transmeta.com> <01051507563500.01598@idun> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > That's not the issue. LILO takes whatever you pass to root= and converts > > it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time. An idiotic practice on the > > part of LILO, in my opinion, that ought to have been fixed a long time > > ago. > > And happily passes a "root=" argument through "append=" for the kernel to > evaluate. > Sure, but it's not the way they have convinced users to set their systems up. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt