From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261294AbTDUOSV (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:18:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261302AbTDUOSV (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:18:21 -0400 Received: from phoenix.mvhi.com ([195.224.96.167]:25608 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261294AbTDUOSG (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:18:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:30:07 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Pierfrancesco Caci Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: booting 2.5.68 with root on software raid and devfs? Message-ID: <20030421153007.A1802@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Pierfrancesco Caci , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <87smsceyim.fsf@home.tippete.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <87smsceyim.fsf@home.tippete.net>; from ik5pvx@home.tippete.net on Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 04:05:53PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 04:05:53PM +0200, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > root@penny:~ # head /etc/lilo.conf > #disk=/dev/hda > # bios=0x80 > #disk=/dev/hdd > # bios=0x81 > boot=/dev/md0 > root=/dev/md0 > raid-extra-boot=/dev/hda,/dev/hdd > #compact > #linear > lba32 No idea how lilo maps all this to a kernel command line, but in 2.5 you need to pass the devfs names to the kernel if using devfs, not the old ones.