Re: Aboot: Load. kernel in ext2 (AS 1200)/Device translation DAC960

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook hp com>]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 07:44:00AM -0800, MC wrote:
> 
> I have an AS1200 and happen to be using a DAC960, but I haven't
> experienced either of these bugs - not on 2.4.x that is... I tried
> 2.6.0-test11 and had to use the device number to boot to the dac960
> array, and from there devfs didn't create the proper devices, but thats
> another story...

Note that under a 2.6.0-test11 (and earlier) kernel, I had to specify:

	root=/dev/rd!c0d0p2	# yes, an exclamation point not a slash

to get the kernel's parsing of the root device string to work as desired,
and, apparently, as intended... ;-}

 --Jay++

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