aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-02-23 19:47:41 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-02-23 19:47:41 +0000
commit364bc46a35579df6f96523306ab90b3b9c3ee2bf (patch)
tree8368b446f028736d90065efc20d319589e403380
parentf5a70f7d53052caa06162a5d73b95d241141232f (diff)
Noted that makedev will create more harddisk partition device files
than you can actually use due to kernel limitations git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@225 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
-rw-r--r--chapter06/makedev-inst.xml6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml b/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml
index a4e4d0433..59d385c9b 100644
--- a/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml
@@ -23,5 +23,11 @@ hdc</userinput> to create the generic set of devices files, plus the
files you need to be able to access hdc (and hdc1, hdc2, etc)
</para>
+<para>
+MAKEDEV will create hda[1-20] and hdb[1-20] and such but keep in mind
+that you may not be able to use all of those devices due to kernel
+limitations regarding the max. number of partitions.
+</para>
+
</sect2>