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Linux Partition Naming Convention ( IDE Drive Mappings )

by on May 4, 2006 · 9 comments

Q. I am new to Linux and I not able to understand /dev/hdc (is it C: drive?) under Linux. This is quite confusing for a new Linux user like me. What device naming convention followed by Linux? Can you explain it in layman’s term?

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Linux Kernel panic VFS Unable to mount root fs and solution

by on May 3, 2006 · 6 comments

Q. I am using Linux on HP server and I am getting error that read as follows: Linux Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs How do I solve this problem? A. Most modern distributions including Debian uses loadable kernel module for ext3 file system. So to read ext3/ext2 file system kernel must load [...]

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Linux display information about installed hardware

by on April 20, 2006 · 4 comments

You need to use command called lsdev. It gathers information about your computer’s installed hardware from the interrupts, ioports and dma files in the /proc directory, thus giving you a quick overview of which hardware uses what I/O addresses and what IRQ and DMA channels. This command is very useful while troubleshooting various hardware conflict [...]

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