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"!
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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.