From: ghart@ems.cdc.com (Geoffrey Hart) Subject: Re: LINUX boot from SCSI drive ? Date: 22 Dec 1992 14:17:23 GMT
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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