From: c-amb@math.utah.edu (Mark B. Alston) Subject: Re: "Automagic" shoelace Date: 21 Jul 1992 19:43:37 GMT
In article <1992Jul21.132107.17136@crd.ge.com> davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
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.
You must have missed my follow-up to my previous post. This
post was hung at my host for nearly a week. In that weeks time Rick
and I had several correspondences about his problem. I had forgotten
about this post until it mysteriously appeared this week. I do admit I
jumped too quickly to those famous words RTFM :)
The asterisk which highlights partition 2 shows you that if
you wait long enough, almost 30 sec. on my machine, partition 2 will
be booted. This is exactly per the manual.
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.
It turns out that Rick was simply not waiting long enough for
the default to be selected. The manual was correct. (at least that is my understanding of what happened.)
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.
According to my documentation, the way to select the default is to
simply wait. It makes no mention of hitting ENTER to select it. Thus following the directions, the ones I have at least, will help in this case.
P.S. Sorry about taking the bandwidth to respond to this post. But
public flames deserve public response.
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post usefull information.