On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:12:03AM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:39:30AM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote: > > It was blindly copying from the environment variable a string > > looking like dksc(0,1,2). This should be translated (somehow) > > to something looking like /dev/sdb1. This would have to be > > done after the hard disk probes. > If you set OSLoadPartition=/dev/sda1 (or whatever) - it allows you to > boot from hard disk without any boot loader involved. Huh? The firmware uses something looking like OSLoadPartition=dksc(0,1,2), not /dev/sda1. > 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. Cheers, Andrew
