Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.4] EDD 4-byte MBR disk signature for the boot disk

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Sat Oct 25 2003 - 00:01:32 EST


On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 04:28:03 +0200, Herbert Poetzl said:

> hmm, IIRC devfs makes a /dev/root symlink pointing
> to the root device ... is this not what you want?

No, he wants a pointer to the disk that has the boot block and
all that - the disk that grub/lilo and /boot are on (which could be
two separate disks I suppose) may not be the disk that / lives on....

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