Re: booting 2.5.68 with root on software raid and devfs?

From: Pierfrancesco Caci (ik5pvx@ik5pvx.dyndns.org)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 10:04:01 EST

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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 :)

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