On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, James D. Freels wrote: > Now I want to rearrange some of the partitions (to convert all to > reiserfs) and temporarily use sdb3 for root and sdb4 for usr while > still maintaining sda1 as the boot space for milo, kernel, etc. I have > modified the OS options of Alphabios with the parameters > "root=/dev/sdb3 single", but milo seems to ignore this after the boot > (note: I have /etc/fstab temporarily modified in the sdb3 copy to use > sdb4 as usr, etc.). I can see the parameters getting passed during the > boot, but the system boots exactly as before. It is as if the normal > parameters were hard coded into milo somehow.
It seems that the way parameters are passed to the kernel somehow changed in 2.4. I saw this too, using aboot rather than milo. Upgrading to the latest aboot fixed it for me. Jeff
