> How do you get away with that? The last time I tried that, the other
> machine had the kernel panic, couldn't open initial console, etc...so I
> ran rdev on it to set the root device, and have been doing it that way
> since. Maybe I'll try it again w/2.2.11, since I stuck a new hd in that
> machine to be root... Does it matter that I'm compiling on /dev/sda1
> but installing on /dev/hda1? I've noticed that the compressed image
> always returns /dev/sda1 as its default root device, when queried with
> rdev.
I beleive LILO passes root= to the kernel, forcing the issue on every
boot. I've been doing this since 2.0, crossing machines, ide/scsi
whatever and havn't ever had a problem (well except for if I got confused
and put an IDE kernel with no SCSI drivers on a SCSI machine ;)
-dwild
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