On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, roger wrote:
> Can somebody please update the Filo README file (and/or the Linuxbios > Filo documentation) to including the following concerning CD-ROM device > file syntax? > > ie. CD-ROM device is to be specified as "hdc1" and not "hdc"! > > > Following is the relevant Filo documentation clippings: > > According to: http://te.to/~ts1/filo/CHANGES > "* Support for mounting boot disk image of El Torito bootable CD-ROM. > ("hdc1" means the boot disk image of the CD-ROM at hdc.)" > > > However, I only see a very vague reference for the syntax of specifying a > CD-ROM drives within Filo's README: > > "Notation of DEVICE for IDE disk and > CD-ROM is same as in Linux (eg. hda1 means the first partition of > master device on primary IDE channel)." > > (With the above Filo README information, the user is going to think > "/dev/hdb" or "hdb" instead, FILO wants to see "hdb1"!) > Personally I think that is a "bug" in FILO. "hdx" refers to the entire device "x" "hdx1" refers to the first primary partition of "x" "hdx2" refers to the second primary partition of "x" And since you can't partition a CD-ROM ( or DVD for that mater ) "hdb" should be correct. reference: "man fdisk", etc. russ -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios