Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

Hi Aaron!

ls -l /kern/rootdev:

brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 16 Dec 7 17:13 /kern/rootdev

ls -l /dev/wd0a:

brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0 Dec 7 17:13 /dev/wd0a

ls -l /mnt/dev/wd0a (wd0a mounted on /mnt):

brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0 Dec 7 22:05 /mnt/dev/wd0a

I didn't touch anything, I just did a standard install per the 
documentation.

I find that "ls -l /dev/wd[0123]a" returns:

brw-r----- 1 root operator 0,  0 Dec  7 17:13 /dev/wd0a
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0,  8 Dec  7 17:13 /dev/wd1a
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 16 Dec  7 17:13 /dev/wd2a
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 24 Dec  7 17:13 /dev/wd3a

/dev/wd2a corresponds to /kern/rootdev. So, should I experiment by 
mv'ing some of these /dev (or /mnt/dev) files around?

Many thanks,
Jason.