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Re: Booting Linux off iPod

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Originally Posted by nathanielreindl
Aha. Just like I liked having bragging rights about booting my old ThinkPad 560Z off CompactFlash. I thought that's what you were going for, but I thought I'd prod some and make sure.


Actually, that's OS X (or Darwin) from the looks of it. Linux doesn't have device names like /dev/disk2s2; they're usually something along the lines of /dev/sdtX or /dev/hdtX, where t is [az] and X is any unsigned integer [1,255]. And pdisk is PowerPC-specific.

Mind you, this is all true unless you're running udev on top of Linux; then, you're dealing with an altogether different beast...



You're going to have to install an MBR on that hard drive in order really to boot from it, I think. Or set a partition under 1024 cylinders bootable.
Hmm, 7 pages into the Google search results and I still haven't found anything. I'll post at a few linux forums and see what they say.
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