setting default boot image in nvram.

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setting default boot image in nvram.

To:	SGI Linux <linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>
Subject:	setting default boot image in nvram.
From:	Alex deVries <adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca>
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 14:43:08 -0400 (EDT)
Sender:	owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com

How do I set my default boot image in nvram WITH a boot disk option?

See, normally, you can just pass "root=/dev/sdb1" to the kernel on the
command line, but that's 14 chars, and the OSLoadOptions only has room for
12. 

Hm.  Perhaps we should get rdev-like stuff running.

?

-- 
Alex deVries
"romantic engsoc guy who runs marathons" - csilcock@chat.carleton.ca
http://www.engsoc.carleton.ca/~adevries/ .

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