Re: Device Numbers, LILO

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
By author:    mirabilos <[e-mail]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> >That's not the issue.  LILO takes whatever you pass to root= and converts
> >it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time.  An idiotic practice on the
> >part of LILO, in my opinion, that ought to have been fixed a long time
> >ago.
> 
> That's why you have to use append="root=blah" for devfs :)
> Really it should have been in IMO. Btw, is LBA support in?
> Last time I saw a LILO manpage it stated that "linear" still
> is restricted to 16bit (65535 sectors) which normally is much
> less than 1k cylinders...
> 

It's in, but for some strange reason you have to ask for it explicitly
with the "lba32" option.

	-hpa
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