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Re: GPT attributes in dkwedge [PATCH]



On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 03:15:10PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 03:06:46PM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> > What about just telling the kernel what to use in /boot.cfg ?
> > No need to add more magic to the kernel.
> 
> Ths user took care of setting bootme so that botstrap finds 
> the kernel, and we should disregard this explicit setting
> when mounting root? 

I still don't get the big picture (probably due to total ignorance about
multiboot).

Something groks enough raidframe to find a GPT partition inside a raidframe
and can load the kernel from there, but it can't pass any usable information
to that kernel how it was loaded (and from where), without our bootloader
being involved?

Martin


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