From: Jean Liddle (jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu)
Date: 08/02/92


From: jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle)
Subject: Re: Getting Linux to boot from HD
Date: 2 Aug 1992 20:40:44 GMT

In article <3dsmz_l.sevenup@netcom.com> sevenup@netcom.com (Mark W. Moorcroft) writes:
>
>Can I assume that this means I would use 0116 for my SCSI drive 1
>(/dev/sdb1), partition 1 ?? I have had no luck getting my system
>to boot from the HD either :-(
>
No...Major 8 is SCSI, I have no idea what Major 16 is...

I think /dev/sdb1 would be 1708, but I'm not positive. (I used the mcc
interim release, and sdb2 was already mknod-ed and worked, so I didn't
actually bother to find out what the minor number is. I _think_ minor
0 is the whole 0th SCSI hd, minor 16 the whole 1st SCSI hd, and so on,
but I don't remember for sure. I believe the SCSI FAQ gives the gory
details.)

Jean.

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