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Re: GPT attributes in dkwedge [PATCH]



On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 03:15:10PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 03:06:46PM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> > What about just telling the kernel what to use in /boot.cfg ?
> > No need to add more magic to the kernel.
> 
> Ths user took care of setting bootme so that botstrap finds 
> the kernel, and we should disregard this explicit setting
> when mounting root? 

That setting tells where /boot is loaded from and where /boot.cfg
is loaded from. The bootloader tells the kernel where the boot
partition is, traditionally in terms of offset and size, but optionally
as wedge identifier. The kernel will try to mount that partition.


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