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