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. > > 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, we're interested what the kernel expects. Why do you need sash for booting anyways? Can't you let the PROM boot the kernel directly? Anyways, I won't object to change OSLoadPartition, we have a bootloader on IP22 so this isn't actually needed anymore. -- Guido
