Comment 139 for bug 477104

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Barbara (bpruijn) wrote :

PS The different devices listed in /dev are:

 pts/ shm/ agpgart apm_bios audio audio1 audio2 audio3 audioctl console core dsp dsp1 dsp2 dsp3 full i2c-0 i2c-1 i2c-2 i2c-3 i2c-4 i2c-5 i2c-6 i2c-7 kmem loop0 loop1 loop2 loop3 loop4 loop5 loop6 loop7 mem midi0 midi00 midi01 midi02 midi03 midi1 midi2 midi3 mixer mixer1 mixer2 mixer3 pmpu401data mpu401stat null port ptmx ram ram0 ram1 ram10 ram11 ram12 ram13 ram14 ram15 ram16 ram2 ram3 ram4 ram5 ram6 ram7 ram8 ram9 random rmidi0 rmidi1 rmidi2 rmidi3 sequencer smtpe0 smpte1 smpte3 sndstat stderr stdin stdout tty tyy0 tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7 tty9 urandom zero

I don't recognize anything above as being a disk/hard drive.

How do I find out which drive to use in:

linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=/dev/sda loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk.ro
                                                             ^^^^^^^^^
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic