... I have had no luck getting my system >to boot from the HD either :-( > No...Major 8 is SCSI, ... worked, so I didn't actually bother to find out what the minor number is. ... minor 0 is the whole 0th SCSI hd, minor 16 the whole 1st SCSI hd, ...

linux-activists - Jean Liddle - Aug 2 1992 - 16:40

========The subject: Getting Linux to boot from HD Pearls of wisdom by: jliddle@rs6000.cmp. ... SCSI drive 1 (/dev/sdb1), partition 1 ?? I have had no luck getting my system to boot from the HD either :-( > >Good luck, > >Jean. >-- >Jean Liddle ...

linux-activists - Mark W. Moorcroft - Aug 2 1992 - 02:08

========The subject: Getting Linux to boot from HD Pearls of wisdom by ... so I didn't >actually bother to find out what the minor ... is the whole 0th SCSI hd, minor 16 the whole 1st ... FAQ gives the gory >details.) >From Jim Winsteads' Install notes for ...

linux-activists - Mark W. Moorcroft - Aug 2 1992 - 19:22

... had no luck getting my system >>to boot from the HD either :-( ... I used the mcc You have to use hexadecimal. >interim release, and sdb2 ... so I didn't >actually bother to find out what the minor number ... 0 is the whole 0th SCSI hd, minor 16 the whole 1st ...

linux-activists - Drew Eckhardt - Aug 3 1992 - 03:27

... had no luck getting my system >>to boot from the HD either :-( ... I used the mcc You have to use hexadecimal. >interim release, and sdb2 ... so I didn't >actually bother to find out what the minor number ... 0 is the whole 0th SCSI hd, minor 16 the whole 1st ...

linux-activists - Drew Eckhardt - Aug 3 1992 - 03:27

... had no luck getting my system >to boot from the HD either :-( ... the type of device. Ie, under Linux, normal disks have major 3, ... is a driver dependant number. Linux uses a 16 bit dev_t, ... ) and offset 509 into the boot image. Note that when measuring ...

linux-activists - Drew Eckhardt - Aug 3 1992 - 03:20

... had no luck getting my system >to boot from the HD either :-( ... the type of device. Ie, under Linux, normal disks have major 3, ... is a driver dependant number. Linux uses a 16 bit dev_t, ... ) and offset 509 into the boot image. Note that when measuring ...

linux-activists - Drew Eckhardt - Aug 3 1992 - 03:20

... yet. 0208 is >what I use for partition 2 of my 0th SCSI drive (major 8)). > Get the latest stuff from headrest.woz.colorado.edu. I integrated the normal / scsi disk partition code into one file. A ...

linux-activists - Drew Eckhardt - Aug 3 1992 - 03:13

... yet. 0208 is >what I use for partition 2 of my 0th SCSI drive (major 8)). > Get the latest stuff from headrest.woz.colorado.edu. I integrated the normal / scsi disk partition code into one file. A ...

linux-activists - Drew Eckhardt - Aug 3 1992 - 03:13

... 'm trying to get the floppy to read >the ROOT image from the HD. The following is reported by efdisk: ... >/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: > ...

linux-activists - Jean Liddle - Aug 1 1992 - 15:55

... >/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: > > ... block device >bread failed >kernel panic: Unable to mount root > >and it dies. > You got ...

linux-activists - Drew Eckhardt - Aug 3 1992 - 03:11

... >/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: > > ... block device >bread failed >kernel panic: Unable to mount root > >and it dies. > You got ...

linux-activists - Drew Eckhardt - Aug 3 1992 - 03:11

... sevenup@netcom.com (Mark W. Moorcroft) writes: >From Jim Winsteads' Install notes for 096 07/ ... most significant [byte] first." Then, go back to where you read that, and read up ... that runs under DOS, that allows you to cahnge the root device of an image ...

linux-activists - Jim Winstead Jr. - Aug 3 1992 - 07:42

... sevenup@netcom.com (Mark W. Moorcroft) writes: >From Jim Winsteads' Install notes for 096 07/ ... most significant [byte] first." Then, go back to where you read that, and read up ... that runs under DOS, that allows you to cahnge the root device of an image ...

linux-activists - Jim Winstead Jr. - Aug 3 1992 - 07:42