Hello, First let me say that I hope I am not asking a question which has been answered here before, I certainly searched the archives of this forum before posting.
My question is this: I would like to know if there is a command line parameter than I can pass to the kernel via grub (in my case the Opensolaris Developer Preview 2 kernel) which will allow me to instruct the kernel to look for its root partition on a different disk than the one from which the kernel was fetched (essentially, the analogue of Linux's "root" kernel command line parameter). My reason for wanting to do this is slightly complicated. I have a slightly older (circa 2005) computer which has an internal harddrive controller that Opensolaris cannot see (!!) but it can see USB mass storage devices which are plugged in. So it seems clear that I will not be able to install Opensolaris on the internal disk, so I want to do it on an external disk. However, I cannot simply install on an external disk and boot it with grub because this machine does not have BIOS support for USB disks (which grub needs to see the disks, I think). So my plan is to put the Opensolaris kernel and microcode module thing into the boot directory in my Linux installation where grub can find them (so I can boot), then tell Opensolaris to root from the USB disk. Thank you, Dan Ratherfoe This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
