Re: using bootcd with usb cdrw drive
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:13:15PM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote:
| On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:43:33PM +0200, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote:
| > Just to know, have you devfs compiled in the kernel and mounted at boot ?
| > are you sure the entry /dev/scd0 exists at boot-time ?
| > what is the error message ? (i guess it's can't mount root fs on device
| > XX:XX -> those numbers have a meaning you should try to interpret)
|
| No, I don't have devfs compiled into the kernel. I don't know how to
| determine if /dev/scd0 exists at boot time, so I don't know if it exists.
|
| I don't remember the exact error message (and am at work now). It was like
| you described, and I think XX:XX was maybe 00:0a, but I didn't write it
| down. I'll check when I get home. What would those numbers indicate?
Major:minor device number. Without devfs the kernel identifies
devices by the major and minor device number stored in the inode.
They are stored in the user and group fields.
There is a (long) table in the kernel-doc package that explains what
the numbers mean and how the kernel computes them.
-D
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