Subject: Re: Another Mac IIsi install
To: grantham <grantham@amalthea.tenon.com>
From: David Holcomb <holcomb@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu>
List: macbsd-general
Date: 10/19/1994 21:50:27
Appendix-less Brad wrote:
> John Wittkoski writes:
> > has hfs, root/usr, and swap. When booting, the kernel sets target device
> > 0 to sd0, and target device 2 to sd1. I'll look inot it further.
>
> Let me (us) know what you find.
This is completely normal. The first scsi device found will map
to sd0, the second device found will map to sd1, etc.
Example: suppose a given system has these SCSI devices
SCSI ID device
------- ------
0 sd0
2 sd1
4 sd2
5 sd3
I have the information at home, but each partition maps something
like this:
Partition label
--------- -----
Root&Usr a
Usr b (?)
Swap g
So Root&Usr for sd0 is sd0a and the swap partition is sd0g.
A Usr-only partition would be sd0b.
I can't remember how the rest of the partitions are labeled.
I think they are just assigned c-f. The labels don't go past
g or h. I believe 8 partitions is the max you can have for
any drive.
Allen can correct any inaccuracies here.
--Dave