Re: 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?)

[Jeff Garzik]

Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:15:27PM +0100, Justin Cormack wrote:
> > If you need to know your bootdisk (why?) why not just get the bootloader
> > to tell you?

> I am not quite sure why anybody would like to know what the bootdisk was.
> The rootdisk, yes, that we need. But the bootdisk?
> Finding it is nontrivial in general. Letting the bootloader tell us
> is also nontrivial.

The bootloader or mkinitrd typically tells the kernel what the root disk 
is, so that's not a big deal.  The boot disk, OTOH, is tough.  Right 
now, we just assume the sysadmin knows what's he's doing, when he 
installs lilo or grub on a disk.  You care about the boot disk when 
installing lilo... maybe there are similar situations too which I do not 
recall.  As Alan said, besides EDD (only on newer boxes) there's really 
nothing.

	Jeff



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