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Re: hex
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Thu Dec 3 18:10:33 1998
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 14:51:25 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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j g b wrote:
> right. there is an option for loadlin which forces the root filesystem to
> be mounted
> on a particular device. the specification is root=xxx where xxx = hex
> number.
> within the documents there is an e.g. xxx = /dev/mmmn (/dev/hda2) where
> mmm=hex number for (fd, hda, hdb, sda, sdb...) and n = decimal. my
> dilemma is the same as yours,
> i know the standard hex system, but how do you adobt it for letters
> higher than h?
Are you talking about the 0x80 and 0x81 that can be used
in /etc/lilo.conf to let MS boot from the second drive?
Please give us an actual hex number and the actual
drive name it represents. Someone will give you an answer then.
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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