Give userspace a raw disk: /dev/hda and /dev/hdb
Nothing outside the kernel could touch a disk. sys_mount does not even look at the device it is handed -- it mounts the one SchFS volume found at boot and ignores `source` -- so a program had no way to read a partition table, format a volume or write a boot sector. An installer is a program that needs all three, so this is the first piece of it. A character device in devsw rather than a separate block layer, because that is where the offset already lives: fileread/filewrite pass f->off and advance it by what comes back, which is everything a seekable device needs. The minor is the IDE device number, the same numbering iderw() uses; two schemes for the same disks would be a bug waiting to happen. Writes bypass every filesystem above them, which is inherent to a raw device and why an installer must target a disk it has not mounted. The nodes are created unconditionally, like every other entry in /dev. That matters more than it looks: with no node, `echo x > /dev/hdb` silently creates an ordinary file of that name and appears to work. It did, and it agreed with itself on read-back; only the host's copy of the disk showed nothing had been written. st_rdev was never filled, so every node in /dev reported "0, 0" under ls -l. Harmless while nothing read it, wrong as soon as something has to tell two disks apart. Filled with the full Linux dev_t encoding rather than (major << 8 | minor), which only works while both stay small. Verified against the host as an independent oracle, both directions: the guest wrote to /dev/hdb and the host saw those bytes at offset 0; the host wrote at offset 4096 and the guest read them back with dd skip=. ls -l now shows 1,1 for console, 2,0 for fb0 and 8,1 for hdb. Known limit, commented in disk.c: devsw passes the offset as a 32-bit uint, so a raw disk is addressable to 4 GB. That must be widened before anyone installs onto a real disk. bootcheck 108 [ok] with -Fb -Tty -Usb -Sock -Evdev -Ps. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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// /dev/input/eventN (major 7) — raw evdev events, kernel/dev/input.c. The
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// minor is the device index, so event0 is the keyboard and event1 the mouse.
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[7] = { inputread, inputwrite, inputready, inputclose, inputopen },
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// /dev/hdN (major 8) — raw disks, kernel/dev/disk.c. The minor is the IDE
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// device number. No `ready` hook: a disk is always ready, which is what
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// fileread assumes when one is absent.
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[8] = { diskread, diskwrite },
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