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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt_Domsch@dell.com
Subject: Re: Which device did I boot from?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:43:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4440C03F.4080709@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604151059.47733.arvidjaar@mail.ru>

Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

>> 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.

int13_dev80 is the bootdevice. Or that used to be the case with things 
such as booting from SCSI at least. Don't know about booting from, say, USB.

Rene.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-15  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-15  6:59 Which device did I boot from? Andrey Borzenkov
2006-04-15  9:43 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2006-04-15 10:30   ` Andrey Borzenkov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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