Re: boot bbc from ide?

Seth David Schoen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I would also suggest that this go on lnx-bbc-devel.  However:

Gordon Anderson writes:

> thanks...
> 
> Ive gunzipped and mounted root.bin and am about to
> edit the line in linuxrc which lists where the CDROMS
> are to be found, in the ultimate search for a
> "singularity"
> 
> I read somewhere there's a treelike structure for the
> devices...
> 
> eg is it like
>   /dev/hda/2   #second partition on first IDE?
> or is it just 
>   /dev/hda1 ??

The devfs pattern for hard drive partitions is like
/dev/discs/discx/party.

We would encourage you to build a disc from source code using our gar
tree instead of modifying an existing image.

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