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Re: Which device did I boot from?



> Dallas Clement wrote:
> > I'm trying to determine which device I booted Linux from at run-time.
> > I'd like to obtain the boot device's major/minor numbers or at least
> > it's name while executing an init script from initramfs.

why?

On 21.06.07 13:07, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> I don't know if that is available at initramfs, but there is /proc/cmdline,
> which should tell you what device was used (root=/dev/blah)

actually it will say something like root=302, which means that is was device
with major 3 and minot 2  (/dev/hda2).
But it's not the boot device...

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