Boot charting

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 02:33:25PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:07:00PM +0100, John Nilsson wrote:
> > I simply meant that if you know that root is on an USB device this can
> > be (and probably is) reflected in the parameters to the kernel.
> 
> It is impossible to distinguish between SCSI, SATA and USB devices based
> solely on pathnames.

Maybe there could be an additional kernel parameter that contains
what subsystems have to get loaded (or not loaded).
This way there could be a save default settings and an easy way for the user
to tweak things for faster booting.


 Florian
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