On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:45:29AM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:19:09AM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> > Huh? The firmware uses something looking like OSLoadPartition=dksc(0,1,2),
> > not /dev/sda1.
> Sure. But what we do on IP22 is to let the kernel look at OSLoadPartition and
> use that as the root device - so we're actually interested in
> linux device names. This is basically done since we can't store the root
> device in OSLoadOptions due to limited space.
Limited space? Ah. I understand now.
> > > If you have a
> > > bootloader (which is only true for IP22 [1]) it sets up the kernels
> > > commandline properly anyway - so where's the problem? nfsroot?
> >
> > The problem is the firmware (on my IP27, anyway) uses a different
> > form to Linux for OSLoadPartition. OSLoadPartition tells the
> > firmware / bootloader (sash here) where to find the kernel.
>
> Again: we don't care what the firmware wants here,
I do.
> Why do you need sash for booting anyways? Can't
> you let the PROM boot the kernel directly?
No. I can't figure out why. In any case, the PROM uses OSLoadPartition
to find the kernel.
> Anyways, I won't object to change OSLoadPartition, we have a bootloader
> on IP22 so this isn't actually needed anymore.
It is on IP27.
So, we should obviously support OSLoadPartition=/dev/sda1 (=> root=/dev/sda1),
but it would also be nice to support OSLoadPartition=dksc(0,1,3).
Cheers,
Andrew
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