Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Sat, 26 Jun 1999 08:30:23 +0400 (MSD) | Subject | Re: System unique identifier..... |
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In <199906260104.VAA05517@jupiter.cs.uml.edu> Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu) wrote: > Theodore Y. Ts'o writes: >> From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
> Doesn't Linux already have this ability on the SPARC and Alpha? > It would work on ia32 too, with GRUB, except for the ability to > use a non-BIOS supported root with the kernel being elsewhere.
I have non-BIOS supported root with the kernel being elsewhere on our server, for example :-) And in near future there are will be A LOT OF systems with non-BIOS supported root (hint: there are quite a few systems with IDE disks > 8Gb and INT13 extensions are broken on quite a few systems as well)...
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