> Something really strange happened to me yesterday.  The system booted 
> fine, up to the point at which it says changing root to sd1a and then 
> hung.

This sounds like you forgot to build devices in the installer.

> On a side note, what *is* a magic number?

It's a number that's chosen to fit into a structure or something that
one checks to see if said structure or something is valid.  It's usually
a sanity check.  Usually used if there's some question as to whether a
structure might be valid.

There are varying opinions about the wisdom of using them.

-allen

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