On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 07:06:00PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 05:45:22PM +0200, Christoph Badura wrote:
> > The NetBSD documentation is full of "root=/dev/hda1" examples.  As far
> > as I can tell nothing in the kernel cares about that.
> > 
> > Does anyone remember what the significance of that parameter ist?
> 
> This is bad cut'n'paste from linux configs.
> 
> > 
> > Maybe it has been replace by the undocumented rootdev= parameter?
> > Is that so?
> 
> it's 'bootdev='

our multiboot support also uses root= . Could NetBSD/Xen support this for
consistency?

Pavel