2.5.19-20 rootfs naming with devfs

From: Pierre Rousselet (pierre.rousselet@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon Jun 03 2002 - 06:12:53 EST

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grub requires this for being able to mount the root fs
(/dev/hde2) at boot time :

root=/dev//dev/ata/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part2

boot fails when the prefix is different from /dev//dev/ata.

This feature was introduced in 2.5.19

Pierre

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