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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: Al Borchers <alb@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel cmdline: root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 "fallback"?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:21:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45AF827C.4020902@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1H7Uqx-0003X0-0u@llonio.corp.google.com>
Al Borchers wrote:
> Thomas Chmielewski wrote:
>> These all unpleasant tasks could be avoided if it was possible to have a
>> "fallback" device. For example, consider this hypothetical command line:
>>
>> root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1
>
> Here is a patch to do this, though it sounds like you might have other
> solutions.
>
> This patch is for 2.6.18.1--thanks to Ed Falk for updating my original
> 2.6.11 patch. If people are interested I can update and test this on
> the current kernel. It was tested on 2.6.11.
Yes, I'd be interested in a patch against a 2.6.19. It is way simpler to
do it this way than to do it with initramfs (although not as flexible).
I tried your patch against 2.6.19, with some minor changes (as it
wouldn't apply), but it didn't work for me (perhaps I just screwed
something).
--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-18 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-18 10:50 Al Borchers
2007-01-18 14:21 ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2007-01-18 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-19 4:12 ` Al Borchers
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-17 12:58 Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-17 13:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-17 14:09 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-17 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-18 10:33 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-18 10:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-18 11:48 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-18 18:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-17 13:37 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-17 13:56 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-17 14:06 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-17 14:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
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