Subject: Re: New kernels
To: Steven Newbury <steve@snewbury.demon.co.uk>
From: Chris Gilbert <cg110@york.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 01/30/1997 12:25:52
On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Steven Newbury wrote:
> On Tue 28 Jan, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Daniel Blueman (5) (CURRICULUM) wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to mount a drive partition that's not in the fstab?
> > having moved the internal disc to the RapIDE has changed it's wd number,
> > so it won't boot.
> Use UnixFS to edit fstab.
>
> You will have to create a new mount obey file for the RapIDE, below is what it
> should contain for drive 5:
>
> |mount RapIDE drive 5 root partition
> unixfs_mount 4BBE8
>
> The number is the SWI number for the specific filing system 'DiscOp' SWI
> + (drive number << 3) + (partition number)
Interesting idea, but the fstab isn't world writeable, so it can't be
altered with unixfs (I fixed the prob by putting it back on the internal
and editing it that way, but of a long job but easiest way.
Cheers
Chris Gilbert