Re: recent dom0 kernels reboot on loading?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:27:50AM +0200, Johan Ihren wrote:
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> >As Manuel would say, "root=/dev/hda1" is a copy and paste from a  
> >linux config.
> >The correct line would be "bootdev=wd0", obviously replacing wd0  
> >with your
> >applicable nbsd device.
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> >I believe root= is now an equivelent? ... but you would still need  
> >to specify
> >a nbsd device, not a linux one.
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> The NetBSD/xen howto still uses the "root=/dev/hda0" terminology, so  
> it is not so much a copy-and-paste from Linux as a copy-and-paste  
> from the NetBSD instructions.
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> I use "root=/dev/hda0" all over my dom0's and, no, I do not have a  
> "hda0" entry in my /dev.

this works as long as the first disk device is the boot one.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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