Re: Aboot: Load. kernel in ext2 (AS 1200)/Device translation DAC960
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:44:41AM -0800, MC wrote:
> 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... ;-}
>
> Hmm - I'll try that one, although I don't have anything like that in
> /dev ...
Um, it's not to be found in /dev, it's found in the kernel's tables
of "root" devices.
Now, please don't ask how I knew that, as I figured it out months ago
and have since forgotten how I DID figure it out... :-\
Just another "senior moment", I think... ;-}
> p.s. - BTW, I ran into a compiler error when I tried test11 - I can't
> remember the eact error.
Hmm, I've had no problem here...
--Jay++
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