Re: Xen boot strangeness (Was: Re: [SOLVED] Re: Xen 4.18.5_20250521nb0 not ELF binary (Was: Re: EFI and Xen))

[Chuck Zmudzinski <frchuckz%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 5/29/2025 5:20 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
> On 5/29/2025 3:23 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 03:01:50PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
>>> [...] 
>>> When I pass bootdev=dk12 in boot.cfg, the bootloader strangely tries dk1 as root
>>> (which is wrong) and correctly detects dk11 as the dump device. But it never
>>> gives me the chance to enter the correct root device and instead tries to load
>>> init which of course it cannot find the NetBSD init on dk1 because dk1 is not
>>> the correct NetBSD root device. In fact on this box a Linux distro is installed
>>> on dk1, as evidenced by the filesystem type detected on dk1: ext2fs.
>> 
>> Hum this could be a bug is the boot argiment parsing. I don't have more than
>> 9 partitions on my disks and root=dkX works in my case.

So I just noticed you said root=dkX works in your case.

The Wiki suggests that root=dkX is an outdated, old form that is
deprecated, so I never tried it and I only tried bootdev=dkX.

So, does bootdev=dkX also work in your case?

Does the code really distinguish between root=dkX and bootdev=dkX?