From: kenc@sol (Ken Corey - Operator) Subject: Re: shoelace solution Date: 9 Jun 1992 01:00:04 GMT
dminer@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Dan Miner) writes:
>In article <AL.92Jun7210713@imdvlf.acuson.com> al@imdvlf.acuson.com (Al Petrofsky) writes:
>>I've discovered that shoelace will only work on partitions that start
>>on a cylinder boundary. I don't remember seeing this in the docs.
>>After I repartitioned and remade my root fs, it all works well.
>>
>>Apologies if this has already been discussed,
>>al
> I have been wanting to install this so I can just boot up without
>a disk. I had a friend install on his machine. Took over a week and
>just started working. He had no idea why.. :)
>Now, how do you calc these boundaries? Would fdisk be fine, since does
>things by cylinders?
Instead of using showlace, I would *strongly* recommand that you get boot.sys,
and bootlin.
1) It will let you have a virgin boot sector, so you're okay if you want
to remove it.
2) It's flexible, and can be used to provide many different boot possibilities,
as long as DOS is one of them. (Many different config scripts if you
want)
3) It's just safer than shoelace.
Just my $.02 worth...;)
-Ken
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