On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 19:32 +0900, Takeshi Sone wrote: > No, this is not a bug. > > > "hdx" refers to the entire device "x" > > "hdx1" refers to the first primary partition of "x" > > "hdx2" refers to the second primary partition of "x" > > "hdb" refers to the entire CD-ROM. > "hdb1" refers to the "boot disk image" in the CD-ROM. > > "Boot disk image" is something like 1.44MB floppy disk image, as > specified in El Torito. > > However, recent distributions don't use the disk image. They use > the entire CD-ROM instead, thanks to isolinux. > So you can use "hdb" to boot them. > > Sorry for the confusion. > My English was (is) bad, so the README should be re-written anyway > to clarify things.
What you just wrote, sounds excellent to me. (Is it more proper to post Filo related material to the openbios.org mailing list. If so, I have done so.) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Tue Jan 30 13:48:33 PST 2007 -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
