BootX, ramdisk and root device

Paul Mackerras paulus at cs.anu.edu.au
Wed Dec 16 10:04:12 EST 1998


Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40 at calva.net> wrote:

> I was wondering: Is there any case where a user may want to have both
> "Use RamDisk" and a specified root device ? Should I ignore the content

Not normally.

> of the root device field when ram disk is used ? (It still possible to

Yes, I think so.

> Similar issue: should I lookup and remove any "video=xxxx" option from
> the kenrnel args prior to booting the kernel when "no video driver" is
> checked or is this harmless ?

This one is harmless, since the video=ofonly option will override
other video=xxx options.

Paul.

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