From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: "Automagic" shoelace Date: 21 Jul 1992 13:21:07 GMT
In article <C-AMB.92Jul20115836@solitude.math.utah.edu>, c-amb@math.utah.edu (Mark B. Alston) writes:
|> Or you could try RTFM and note that when you laceup /dev/hda that you
|> should do it as such: laceup -w 2 /dev/hda where -w 2 means, set my
|> default boot partition to /dev/hda2. Of course this is done after
|> issuing laceup /dev/hda2 wini
You obviously have a different version of laceup than he does (or I
do). Having done just exactly what you suggest so bluntly, on boot the
system shows a map of partitions with 2 highlighted by an asterisk, and
waits for a partition number to be entered.
When you tell someone to RTFM it's wise to be sure that what the FM
says is correct. In this case, at least for some versions of laceup (or
some machines), this isn't the case.
I also noted that evil things happened when I just hit ENTER to take
the default. It didn't. I'm perfectly willing to believe that this is a
BIOS anomaly, but no amount of following the directions will help.
--
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.