From: arl@cs.hut.fi (Ari Lemmke) Subject: Re: Booting Linux from HD?? Date: 16 Jul 1992 00:42:30 GMT
In article <3529@cs.rit.edu> 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 running with partition 1 as my root, 2 as user, and 3 as swap.
You can partition your disk with Ontrack etc.
My disk is like:
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| | boot etc.
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| | >500 k gap ;-)
------------- [possible to use for booting]
| | 1st partition 30MB ROOT
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| | small gap [disk corrupted, and mkfs
------------- didn't like it ;-]
| | 2nd partition 30MB USR
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| | 3rd partition >12MB free
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I noticed 20 MB for root and 40 MB for /usr would have
been better solution.
Only the first partition is laceupped.
It seems that it's possible to have 9 partitions on a disk
using gaps as a kludge partitions (Naturally only the real
partitions are bootable)... but still I've not checked
the partition table format.
: -Anatoly
arl