In article <64240@apple.Apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
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>I have a program called "fixboot" that will patch your boot diskette
>with the correct numbers - no more math!  "fixboot /dev/hda3" or whatever
>will patch your diskette.  It also has a "-q" option that tells you the major
>and minor device numbers of the current root device, and "-r" will reset
>them to "0" (ignores the hard disk).

Your program will probably work, but it shouldn't.  I wrote a similar program
last night.  It will be fine for resetting the device numbers to 0 for
making Linux use the floopy drive for root, but if you just booted Linux
for the first time and you have your floppy drive mounted as root, you really
shouldn't take the root floppy out to put the boot image in.  But maybe you
have a solution to this problem that I didn't think of?

-David