From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) Subject: Re: Booting Linux from HD?? Date: 14 Jul 1992 09:23:47 GMT
In article <6904@chaos.DAC.Northeastern.edu> usenet@chaos.DAC.Northeastern.edu (usenet dummy) writes:
>Please help me get this to work. I have read the FAQ file and I Reid's beginnerds guide
>
>I started with MCC distribution 0.95c and upgraded my boot image to 0.96a23
>sucessfully. I followed the one page instructions for installing shoelace
>and can boot from the dos partition but attempting to boot from the linux
>partition hangs the machine. I have already double checked that the Image
>file to make sure offsets 508 and 509 contain the appropriate major and minor
>device numbers.
>
> What piece of magic am I missing?
>
> I need to get this machine running so I can have bothe DOS and Linux
> up soon! (ie: would like to get dos back up without having to
> erase linux)
Shoelace is a very temperamental bit of software! It will not work if
Linux is in partition 1 because it requires the start of the partition
to be at the start of a cylinder (I assume here gratuitously that partition
1 is the first partition on your disk). Perhaps this is the problem.
You mention MCC interim version 0.95c. I assume this number is an error.
The version of fdisk in 0.96c makes partitions end on cylinder boundaries
by default; the version of fdisk in MCC 0.95c+ did not do this. It isn't
absolutely necessary, but some software is unhappy if you don't. Perhaps
get MCC version 0.96c and upgrade, but you'll have to delete the partition
if its location is problematic.
-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk