[email protected] (Manuel Bouyer) writes:
>On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 05:58:54PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
>> [email protected] (Manuel Bouyer) writes:
>>
>> >To avoid problems like that you should always specify a root= option
>> >to a NetSBD/Xen dom0 boot.
>>
>> It would be certainly useful if all kernels allowed some kind of root=
>> option, but currently the boot parameters are almost all some historic
>> machine-dependent binary structure and some machine-dependent interpreter
>> or parser of that data.
>You're probably right, but how is it relevant to my message ?
It's relevant to the discussion on how to specify the right root disk.
Xen allows you to do this (even requires it), but a standard system
with our standard bootloader does not and relies on too much magic.
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