Hello!
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:34:02PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 04:30:39PM +0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> > fake major is easy, it allows you to register ubd device on two majors.
> > This is useful e.g. for installing distros inside of UML.
> > Distro installers are tend to look for IDE disk on major 3, for example.
> > Then if you boot with ubd=3, installer will find the disk ;)
> Not that I would argue in favour of using devfs, but to make this fake
> major stuff useful with devfs you'd have to use the devfs entries of
> the faked devices. So instead of the ubd_fake devfs names you'd
There is separate option for this. Though it should be fixed, it seems.
But mind you, installers I've seen do not use devfs.
> better add a string boot option that'll get set into ->devfs_name for
> those.
There is. It is called "fakeide" ;)
This one should be fixed it seems.
Bye,
Oleg
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