Re: why does dk(4) take precedence in boot device selection???

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost (Manuel Bouyer) writes:

>On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 05:58:54PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
>> bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost (Manuel Bouyer) writes:
>> 
>> >To avoid problems like that you should always specify a root= option
>> >to a NetSBD/Xen dom0 boot.
>> 
>> It would be certainly useful if all kernels allowed some kind of root=
>> option, but currently the boot parameters are almost all some historic
>> machine-dependent binary structure and some machine-dependent interpreter
>> or parser of that data.

>You're probably right, but how is it relevant to my message ?

It's relevant to the discussion on how to specify the right root disk.
Xen allows you to do this (even requires it), but a standard system
with our standard bootloader does not and relies on too much magic.

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