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Re: [LUG] What do these numbers mean...?

 

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 21:37 +0100, Alexis wrote:

> anyway, something I've discovered in my experiments is that the home
> brew kernel will only boot using:
> root=0805
> rather than root=/dev/sda5 or root=uuid=(something)
> and I only found that out by booting with all the kernel messages
> showing and it gave me list of 080* = /dev/sda* to choose from.

Hmm, okay solved my own problem after asking about it 
as usual...  I needed to make an initrd.

I'd still like to know why this is so, though.

Alexis Phoenix


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