On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:39:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Which means you need about 1000000 device nodes so you can boot of any > of the 65536 disks you could have connected? Why? The kernel currently has hardcoded logic to convert the root=... string into a major,minor number, it doesn't use /dev for this. Once user space has started, it can populate /dev as required. Or did I miss something here? -- Brian May <bam@debian.org>