Saturday August 01 1992, Jean Liddle writes to All:

 JL> You need to reverse your digits.  508=MINOR number, 509=MAJOR.

Thanks, I discovered this after beating myself senseless a few times
with
NU. :)  I ended up re-partitioning the Linux portion of the HD and
creating

/dev/hda2  55 megs Linux
/dev/hda3   5 megs swap

0203 was what I entered in bytes 508 & 509 and the HD is now the root
filesystem.  Take care.

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