Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964827AbXASENG (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:13:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964834AbXASENG (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:13:06 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:16507 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964827AbXASENF (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:13:05 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent: x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to: content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LZzm9z0/aW98A05Q7g6STKvuyJGbxFf6DhuSoLhgujjJafOmEme7FWlKUUqWzMFT9 GZmX/8txy+OYyiYpmh9iQ== Message-ID: <45B04547.5030904@google.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:12:55 -0800 From: Al Borchers User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tomasz Chmielewski CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel cmdline: root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 "fallback"? References: <45AF827C.4020902@wpkg.org> In-Reply-To: <45AF827C.4020902@wpkg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1211 Lines: 39 Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Al Borchers wrote: > >> Thomas Chmielewski wrote: >> >>> These all unpleasant tasks could be avoided if it was possible to >>> have a "fallback" device. For example, consider this hypothetical >>> command line: >>> >>> root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 >> >> >> Here is a patch to do this, though it sounds like you might have other >> solutions. >> >> This patch is for 2.6.18.1--thanks to Ed Falk for updating my original >> 2.6.11 patch. If people are interested I can update and test this on >> the current kernel. It was tested on 2.6.11. > > > Yes, I'd be interested in a patch against a 2.6.19. It is way simpler to > do it this way than to do it with initramfs (although not as flexible). I will look do it, but I will be out next week so it may take a while. -- Al > > I tried your patch against 2.6.19, with some minor changes (as it > wouldn't apply), but it didn't work for me (perhaps I just screwed > something). > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/