On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On 2001-10-10, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
>
> >> On 2001-10-10, # sriram # wrote:
> >>
> >> >hi mikkel..how d'u correlate 08:15 to /dev/sda15
> >>
> >> device with major 08, minor 15
> >>
> > Except maybe "08:15" in the message is in hexadecimal, in which
>
> Yes, you're right. The notation used there is hexadecimal.
> I took sda15 for granted. So:
>
> $ ls -la /dev | grep " 8,[[:space:]]*21 "
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 21 Mar 24 2001 sdb5
>
> >case "15" means decimal 21. Since "ls -l /dev/sdb5" shows for me
> >brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 21 Aug 24 2000 /dev/sdb5
> >the offending partition might be sdb5. Let's suppose for now that
> >it is. Your playing around with disks could lead to the root partition
> >no longer being on sdb. Maybe it's now on sda5 or sdc5.
>
This correction is important. I should know better, but I goofed. This
means that Linux is trying to access a drive that is not there. With
only one SCSI drive, it will be /dev/sda, so there is no longer a
/dev/sdb to mount the root file system off of. If the drive that was
replaced was /dev/hdb, then the Linux install is gone. I think this is
the case.
Mikkel
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