On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:20:28AM +0100, Jason Quigley wrote:

> Still, maybe it *should* be alright, but in fact, it's not. What is that 
> root_device?

it's the device the kernel booted from.

kaben2$ ls -l /kern/rootdev
brw-r-----  1 root  operator  4, 8 Sep 19  2000 /kern/rootdev
kaben2$ ls -l /dev/sd1a
brw-r-----  1 root  operator  4, 8 Sep 19  2000 /dev/sd1a

since you have /kern mounted, look at the major and minor of your
/kern/rootdev device and then look to see what the corresponding device
in /dev is.

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