Re: Local disk boot HOWTO

[Mike Shaver <shaver@neon.ingenia.ca>]

Thus spake Greg Chesson:
> > > - 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.

The root= parameter tells it where its root device is.
(It magically parses the [hs]d[ab][0-8] part into major/minor.)

Mike

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