[H-GEN] kernel panic interpretation

[Robert Brockway]

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On Fri, 10 May 2002, Mick Howe wrote:

> 08:01 refers to device 8 on scsi channel 1. THINK its the ramdisk

Actually it doesn't :)

08 refers to the major number of the device.
01 refers to the minor number of the device.

08:01 is /dev/sda1

See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt for more information on
this.

Cheers,
	-Rob

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