On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:40:26AM -0800, Russ Whitaker wrote: > 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"! <snip> > Personally I think that is a "bug" in FILO.
No, this is not a bug. > "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" "hdb" refers to the entire CD-ROM. "hdb1" refers to the "boot disk image" in the CD-ROM. "Boot disk image" is something like 1.44MB floppy disk image, as specified in El Torito. However, recent distributions don't use the disk image. They use the entire CD-ROM instead, thanks to isolinux. So you can use "hdb" to boot them. Sorry for the confusion. My English was (is) bad, so the README should be re-written anyway to clarify things. -- Takeshi -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios