Bug#302359: debian-installer: linux26 can't boot with root=/dev/ida/c0d0p1 or root=/dev/rd/c0d0p1

[Piotr Roszatycki]

On Thursday 16 of June 2005 21:55, you wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:00:00PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> > The problem is shown with Compaq Array and Mylex DAC960 and probably with
> > other controllers which use root=/dev/subdirectory/file path schema. This
> > syntax is correct for Linux 2.4 but it is wrong for Linux 2.6. The Linux
> > 2.6 has changed syntax for "root" kernel parameter and it is now
> > root=/dev/subdirectory!file path.
>
> I think /dev/subdirectory/file is backward compatible, check
> http://lxr.linux.no/source/init/do_mounts.c#L176
>
> however I didn't investigated this much nor I know if mylex/compaq array
> driver do special argument parsing, but that doesn't seem the case

No, it isn't. At least in the Debian installer. The only way to boot from 
Mylex or CPQ was to change '/' to '!' in GRUB's menu.lst.

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