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root device for linux when booting from eltorito-cd
From: |
Armin Herbert |
Subject: |
root device for linux when booting from eltorito-cd |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:51:44 +0200 |
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Hi,
I created a bootable CD with grub 0.95 according to
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Making%20a%20GRUB%20bootable%20CD-ROM
,
which works fine so far (can boot the kernel).
In menu.lst, I need to specify a root device to the linux kernel, but
the CD should be bootable from any device.
Can't grub give the kernel a hint? Why isn't it possible to make this:
root (cd) # works of course
kernel /vmlinuz root=(cd) # (cd) is substituted with the device name
It would be very _very_ nice if this worked, because if it did, I
wouldn't need to build an initrd. :-)
Thanks for hints in advance,
Yours
Armin Herbert
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