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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/m68k')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/m68k/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt | 16 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/m68k/00-INDEX b/Documentation/m68k/00-INDEX index a014e9f0076..2be8c6b00e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/m68k/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/m68k/00-INDEX @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 00-INDEX - this file +README.buddha + - Amiga Buddha and Catweasel IDE Driver kernel-options.txt - command line options for Linux/m68k diff --git a/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt b/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt index c93bed66e25..eaf32a1fd0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt @@ -80,8 +80,6 @@ Valid names are: /dev/sdd: -> 0x0830 (forth SCSI disk) /dev/sde: -> 0x0840 (fifth SCSI disk) /dev/fd : -> 0x0200 (floppy disk) - /dev/xda: -> 0x0c00 (first XT disk, unused in Linux/m68k) - /dev/xdb: -> 0x0c40 (second XT disk, unused in Linux/m68k) The name must be followed by a decimal number, that stands for the partition number. Internally, the value of the number is just @@ -129,6 +127,20 @@ decimal 11 is the major of SCSI CD-ROMs, and the minor 0 stands for the first of these. You can find out all valid major numbers by looking into include/linux/major.h. +In addition to major and minor numbers, if the device containing your +root partition uses a partition table format with unique partition +identifiers, then you may use them. For instance, +"root=PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF". It is also +possible to reference another partition on the same device using a +known partition UUID as the starting point. For example, +if partition 5 of the device has the UUID of +00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF then partition 3 may be found as +follows: + PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF/PARTNROFF=-2 + +Authoritative information can be found in +"Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt". + 2.2) ro, rw ----------- |