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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva•net>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Cc: paulus@cs•anu.edu.au
Subject: BootX, ramdisk and root device
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 14:37:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19981215143756.003692@mail.mipsys.com> (raw)


Hi All !

A couple of questions for which I would like feed-back before changing BootX:

I've seen users having troubles because they both checked the "Use RAM
Disk" box and wrote some incorrect infos in the /dev/xxx edit field of BootX.

I was wondering: Is there any case where a user may want to have both
"Use RamDisk" and a specified root device ? Should I ignore the content
of the root device field when ram disk is used ? (It still possible to
force it by typing the parameter manually in the kernel args anyway).

Similar issue: should I lookup and remove any "video=xxxx" option from
the kenrnel args prior to booting the kernel when "no video driver" is
checked or is this harmless ?

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             reply	other threads:[~1998-12-15 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-12-15 13:37 Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
1998-12-15 23:04 ` BootX, ramdisk and root device Paul Mackerras
1998-12-16 23:21 ` Nathan Hurst
1998-12-17 15:46 ` nathan ingersoll

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