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- From: ghart@ems.cdc.com (Geoffrey Hart)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: LINUX boot from SCSI drive ?
- Message-ID: <31326@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:17:23 GMT
- References: <9212210912.AA03757@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>
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- I had the same problem. The normal value for /dev/hda2 was 0302 in my
- case. Since the three is the major number of /dev/hda2, and 2 is the minor
- number, I tried 0802 for /dev/sda2. It worked :-).
-
- In case you're unfamiliar with major/minor numbers, do an "ls -l /dev/[hs]da*"
- to see them. The major number is the index to the device driver (3 for
- IDE, 8 for SCSI), and the minor number is like a parameter sent to the
- device driver to specify which device to act on (each partition on each
- different disk have a unique minor number, something like
- SCSI_ID*16+partition).
-
- Good luck! (p.s. I'm using bootlin, not PCBOOT, but I suspect they're
- similiar in this respect).
-
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