[coLinux-devel] Re: _NO_ problem with raw device access....

[keksov <ke...@gm...>]

Sorry for not answering your question earlier, just was at work. But looks like
you solved it already by yourself. Congratulations !!! :)

Happy weekend,
Dim



Friday, March 19, 2004, 9:48:06 PM, you wrote:

CMS> Hi guys,

CMS> I just wanted to say thanks to the three of you for e-mailing me
CMS> privately with help with raw partition/device access.  I worked on it,
CMS> and the answer is...

-->> I'm a moron :^D <--

CMS> I can mount my tiny VFAT partition fine by referring to it as 
CMS> \Device\HarddiskVolume1 or \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1.  I can
CMS> mount my CD-ROM in raw access mode using \Device\CdRom0, too.

CMS> What confused me so much I didn't try anything beyond booting up
CMS> (like an idiot!) was that cobd0 (root image) and cobd1 (swap
CMS> image) were detected and reported during the boot sequence, but
CMS> cobd2 was *never* reported.  I thought it hadn't "connected."

CMS> Do you consider this a bug to be fixed?  If so, I'll take a crack
CMS> at getting coLinux to report the block_device entries in the XML
CMS> file other than root and swap when it boots.

CMS> Thanks for your help and patience :^)

CMS> 					Clemmitt