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Re: Aboot: Load. kernel in ext2 (AS 1200)/Device translation DAC960



On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:26:52AM -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 07:44:00AM -0800, MC wrote:
> > 
> > I have an AS1200 and happen to be using a DAC960, but I haven't
> > experienced either of these bugs - not on 2.4.x that is... I tried
> > 2.6.0-test11 and had to use the device number to boot to the dac960
> > array, and from there devfs didn't create the proper devices, but thats
> > another story...
> 
> Note that under a 2.6.0-test11 (and earlier) kernel, I had to specify:
> 
> 	root=/dev/rd!c0d0p2	# yes, an exclamation point not a slash
> 
> to get the kernel's parsing of the root device string to work as desired,
> and, apparently, as intended... ;-}
> 
>  --Jay++
> 
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> Jay A Estabrook                            HPTC - LINUX support
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> 
Hmm - I'll try that one, although I don't have anything like that in
/dev ...
I got 2.6.0-test10 to finally boot fully by adding the devices i needed
to /etc/devfs/devices.d/
Otherwise, the only device created (with regards to /dev/rd) was
/dev/rd/host0/targetx/ (x being 0-31)
...interesting... now that i look at it, target0 is a dir with disc0,
psrt1, and part2 under it, with the correct major/minor numbers. And
target1 also has the proper devices under it.  Well, I never saw
anything like that in any documentation...I thought I RTFM! 
Mike

p.s. - BTW, I ran into a compiler error when I tried test11 - I can't
remember the eact error.



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