Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Arjan van de Ven
2001-05-14T23:18:47Z

In article <3B006229.EA65A868@transmeta.com> you 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.

That's why you want mount-root-by-partition-label, not by device