Re: SOLVED: bootstrap: panic: ... invalid IO size
Marc Singer writes:
> At http://www.pick.ucam.org/~mcv21/hurd.html, the author states:
>
>
> First - Understand Hurd partition names
>
> Hurd uses different partition names to Linux, and this can be
> confusing. IDE hard disks are numbered in order, beginning from
> hd0. Note that the second IDE drive will always be hd1, regardless of
> whether it is a slave or a second master. SCSI drives are also
> numbered in the same way, in absolute order (so not necessarily the
> drive ID): they will always be sd0, sd1, and so on regardless of
> whether the two drives are SCSI id 4 and 5 or whatever.
>
> This is, in fact, not the case. The first physical disk on my machine
> is numbered similarly as it is on Linux, according to the controller
> and the master/slave status of that device. My only IDE drive is a
> master on the second controller and it is hd2.
Do SCSI drives actually get named as documented? My last experience with a
system that handled drive-names that way was MS-DOS, and it was quite
bothersome to have the DOS drive-letters reshuffle after adding or removing
a drive....
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