Re: [PATCH] mutliple root devs (take II)

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[I wrote]
> Your patch makes it impossible, in this situation, to override the
> default root device from the syslinux command line. A kludge to make
> it work again would be to process the root devices in reverse.

Better would be to reset the list of root devices with every 'root='
statement, rather than trying all of them as you do now. I.e.

  ... root=/dev/hda1 ... root=/dev/hda2,/dev/hda3 ...

would *not* try hda1.

Peter
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