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Re: SOLVED: bootstrap: panic: ... invalid IO size



Marc Singer <elf@relay8.Austria.EU.net> writes:

> The numbering is still strange as this device is *still* numbered
> hd2 even though there are no other IDE hard drives in the machine.

Is it possible that this device is a master on the second IDE channel?
If your mobo has on-board IDE with two connectors ...

[rant coming up]
I think that the current naming system is confusing and incoherent.
Why are ide disks on a fixed position, while scsi disks are always
in a contiguous block sd0 to sdN?

I strongly think the hurd should adopt a sane & simple convention and
stick to that. Something like that comes to mind:

hc0d1s3 would be slice (dos partition) 3 on disk 1 (slave) on ide
channel 0 (primary). sc2i5l1s0 would be slice 0 of a device having id
5 and lun 1 on SCSI chain/channel 2. lun can be left out for those
devices without it. Leaving out the slice means the whole device.

Today, sticking to mach tradition is the most straight-forward
solution. But what if we use a different µkernel with yet another
bizarre scheme in the future?

Just my meagre .02 Euro
-- 
Robbe

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