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 08:19:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 08:19:29 -0400 Received: from www.topmail.de ([212.255.16.226]:34291 "HELO www.topmail.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 08:19:21 -0400 From: mirabilos To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Device Numbers, LILO Message-Id: <20010515121635.B5C402F84AC@www.topmail.de> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:16:35 +0200 (MET DST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >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 have to use append="root=blah" for devfs :) Really it should have been in IMO. Btw, is LBA support in? Last time I saw a LILO manpage it stated that "linear" still is restricted to 16bit (65535 sectors) which normally is much less than 1k cylinders... -mirabilos -- by telnet