Re: root= needs hex in 2.6.0-test1-mm2

From: Charles Lepple (clepple@ghz.cc)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 10:48:35 EST

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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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