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Subject: Re: booting 2.5.68 with root on software raid and devfs?
Reply-To: Pierfrancesco Caci <pf@tippete.net>
From: Pierfrancesco Caci <ik5pvx@home.tippete.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:04:01 +0200
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:-> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:

    > 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.

Yep. Passing /dev/md/0 did it, and I'm now stuck with my partitions on
LVM that I don't know how to mount... Ahh, the bleeding edge :-)

Thanks :)

Pf


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