Re: Local disk boot HOWTO

["Greg Chesson" <greg@xtp.engr.sgi.com>]

On Aug 15,  9:38am, Eric Kimminau wrote:
> Subject: Re: Local disk boot HOWTO

> > Do you have a root-mountable filesystem on the second disk?
> > If so:
> > - put vmlinux on the IRIX /
> > - boot into sash
> > boot /vmlinux root=/dev/sdb1
> >


seems to me you'd have to also patch vmlinux to get the device ID
correct for the root disk.  On Irix you'd have to move /dev/root.
I'm not sure what the equivalent might be on linux.... but I'd like
to know what the recipe is.  I too would like to bring linux up on
a secondary disk.

g