Re: [Fwd: Alpha Debian Netinst]

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:16:16PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > The correct line would be:
> 
> > 0:boot/linux root=/dev/ram initrd=boot/root.bin ramdisk_size=16384 devfs=mount,dall
> 
> One thing that seems to be inconsistent here -- the
> boot/i386/syslinux.cfg settings use 'root=/dev/rd/0' as opposed to
> 'root=/dev/ram'.  Is there some reason one should be preferred over the
> other?  I believe that both should work, but assume that if there's a
> reason to use one over the other, it would apply equally to all
> platforms.

/dev/ram is the non-devfs name. Some bootloaders or the kernel
translate that into major:minor numbers. The devfs name on the other
hand won't get translated.

I think root=/dev/rd/0 on i386 is actually wrong but since an initd is
detected the "root=" is ignored anyway and the initrd is mounted. Could
be wrong though. You could test using /dev/rd/1 and see if it still
works.

MfG
        Goswin