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From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
To: "T. Camp" <campt@openmars.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mutliple root devs (take II)
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 16:44:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001201164402.B25464@wire.cadcamlab.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012010843470.4856-100000@magic.skylab.org> <20001201163525.A25464@wire.cadcamlab.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001201163525.A25464@wire.cadcamlab.org>; from peter@cadcamlab.org on Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 04:35:25PM -0600


[I wrote]
> Your patch makes it impossible, in this situation, to override the
> default root device from the syslinux command line.  A kludge to make
> it work again would be to process the root devices in reverse.

Better would be to reset the list of root devices with every 'root='
statement, rather than trying all of them as you do now.  I.e.

  ... root=/dev/hda1 ... root=/dev/hda2,/dev/hda3 ...

would *not* try hda1.

Peter
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-01 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-01 16:49 T. Camp
2000-12-01 16:57 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-01 17:05   ` T. Camp
2000-12-01 17:14     ` Olivier Galibert
2000-12-01 17:16     ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-01 22:35 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-12-01 22:44   ` Peter Samuelson [this message]
2000-12-01 23:35   ` T. Camp
2000-12-01 23:49     ` Peter Samuelson
2000-12-02  1:04     ` Jeff Dike
2000-12-02  2:17       ` Philipp Rumpf

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