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Re: Avoid wedges from certain devices



kab00m%lich.phys.spbu.ru@localhost (Dima Veselov) writes:

>> While the bootloader could pass a literal boot device, this is only
>> done by multiboot (e.g. grub), not by the regular /boot.

>wiki says Xen kernels can take root= parameter, why other
>kernels may not? Does it mean xen load kernels in multiboot
>way or NetBSD xen kernels have this ability?

It's not the xen kernel that takes the root= parameter. But yes,
that's very MD specific how boot parameters can be passed.

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