[parisc-linux] palo II

Matthew Wilcox willy@debian.org
Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:51:10 +0100


On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:46:54PM +0200, Joel Soete wrote:
> Anoyed to change my fstab because I add or remove a disk to/from the external
> scsi controler of my b2k (boot disk sda became sdb, sdc, or what else),
> I decide so to test devfs kernel. It seems to works (excepted that I could
> not specify root=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target5/lun0/part5)

(a) devfs is shit.  do not use it.
(b) even if it's compiled in, the kernel still matches `root=' against a
built-in table that has nothing to do with devfs.
(c) devfs is shit.  do not use it.

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