On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> You CAN NOT boot Linux without using command line option. Never was,
> never will. You MUST specify at least one option: root=blah-blah-blah
> ...
Not true. root=/dev/whatever is /not/ a command-line option on
i386. It gets stored in the b?zImage header.
See "man rdev".
I suspect that there was once a time when the kernel had no concept
of a command-line at all. And anywy, it's very useful be be able to
dd a kernel onto a floppy without having to put something like LILO
there too.
Matthew.
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