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Re: [patch] MI root filesystem detection



dyoung%pobox.com@localhost (David Young) writes:

>At least on i386, the bootloader passes both BTINFO_BOOTWEDGE-
>and BTINFO_BOOTDISK-type information to the kernel, but the
>_BOOTWEDGE information supercedes the _BOOTDISK information: thus the
>booted_partition is left at 0, and if the kernel fails to match the
>_BOOTWEDGE info to a wedge it blithely selects the 0th partition on the
>booted_device for its root filesystem.

The MD code should pass the proper information, there is no need to fix up the
error in the MI part.

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