Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:48:35 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: root= needs hex in 2.6.0-test1-mm2 | From | "Charles Lepple" <> |
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Florian Huber said: > On 23 Jul 2003 14:20:21 +0200 > Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org> wrote: > >> I would say it's a bug :-) > > "It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature" ;) > > On the one hand it sounds reasonable tom me that I cannot use the > device "path", because devfs sets it, but why has it changed? It > seemed to work well with older kernel versions. And what do the hex > numbers stand for?
First two are the device major, second two are the minor.
$ ls -l /dev/hdb1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 65 Jan 30 05:24 /dev/hdb1
-> root=0341
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