From: jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) Subject: Re: Getting Linux to boot from HD Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 19:55:55 GMT
In article <712687897.F00097@remote.halcyon.com> Dane.Beko@p1.f21.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Dane Beko) writes:
>I just installed v.96c-1 and I'm trying to get the floppy to read
>the ROOT image from the HD. The following is reported by efdisk:
>
>I used 'mkfs -c /dev/hda5 56281' as the first command, then 'mkswap
>/dev/hda6 5129'. Now, after using NU to edit the BOOT096C image and
>changing bytes 508 and 509 to be '0305', the error message is:
>
You need to reverse your digits. 508=MINOR number, 509=MAJOR.
Use NU and replace 508/509 with 0503 instead. (I assume this will work,
I have a SCSI system and so cannot use extended partitions yet. 0208 is
what I use for partition 2 of my 0th SCSI drive (major 8)).
Good luck,
Jean.
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