From: unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) Subject: Re: Booting Linux from HD?? Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1992 15:50:20 GMT
ani0349@cs.rit.edu (Anatoly N Ivasyuk) writes:
> In article <5334@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk writes:
> >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.
>
> Funny, but it's always worked for me. I dropped DOS completely and am runnin
> with partition 1 as my root, 2 as user, and 3 as swap.
Well, I share Owen's experience which says that either he and I have a
common problem with shoelace (I'm using mcc-interim) or you're lucky. When
I tried /dev/hda1 last night - pfft!
Rick
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