At Sat, 31 May 2025 13:29:05 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" <wo...@planix.ca> wrote: Subject: Re: Xen boot strangeness (Was: Re: [SOLVED] Re: Xen 4.18.5_20250521nb0 not ELF binary (Was: Re: EFI and Xen)) > > [1 <text/plain; US-ASCII (7bit)>] > At Fri, 30 May 2025 23:54:32 -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski <frchu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Subject: Re: Xen boot strangeness (Was: Re: [SOLVED] Re: Xen > 4.18.5_20250521nb0 not ELF binary (Was: Re: EFI and Xen)) > > > > On 5/30/2025 4:35 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > On one such legacy system I pass "bootdev=sd0" and it figures out which > > > partition to use, but in theory this could/should be "root=sd0a" (maybe > > > with "dump=sd0b"). > > > > I would be curious to know what happens if you set bootdev=sd0a instead of > > bootdev=sd0 on that system. I cannot test the legacy case on my box. > > I have no reason to suspect it would fail -- though perhaps it would > indeed go through the silly logic of still setting the booted dev to > "sd0" and then assuming the root partition is the "a" slice that it had > just chopped off the given string.
Sorry, I meant to add that I don't plan to reboot that machine any time
soon as it's doing too much else, so I won't be able to actually test
this.
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Greg A. Woods <gwo...@acm.org>
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