From: alph@wsinfo02.win.tue.nl (G.J.W. Hagenaars) Subject: trouble booting (dos) [hum] Date: 7 Sep 1992 10:19:13 GMT
Well, this is a story, so only read this if you have the time.
Yesterday (sunday), i started installing Linux using the SLS package.
At first I had some trouble booting, but maybe that was a faulty disk,
because when I rerawrote it it worked fine.
Very good; booting works, now installing with the utilities disk.
I got a
magic match failed
magic match failed
[MS-DOS FS Rel. alpha.5, FAT 12, check=n, conv=b]
[me=0xf0, cs=1, #f=2, fs=1, fl=9, ds=19, de=224, data=33, se=2880, ts=0]
No bmap support
installing base...Drive 0 is write protected
floppy I/O error
dev 021c, sector 18
done
But never mind, it worked.
Installing the rest (minimal base system): easy. Very good.
Moving on to getting Linux to boot from HD. i.e. install Shoelace and
Winiboot.
Reading /etc/README.shoelac I followed the instructions and tried out
some different combinations to get all the stuff in the right place
(meanwhile rebooting a couple of times --want a number? ok, > 25 --)
After a couple of hours everything was in the right place (including
some other software I installed along the way).
So I made a laceup to fd0H1440 rebooted, and Linux booted (like a
dream)
Fine, laceup to my hd, reboot partition 2, (Linux). It worked.
reboot partition 1, (Dos) pfrt.
Hey, what?
My Dos is dead!
reboot Linux, mdir c:
non-MSDOS?!?!?!?!?
mdir d:, mdir e:, mdir f: (all in an extended partition) works fine
reboot DOS from a floppy, c:
pfew, I can still access c: (if I ignore the, 'FAT bad' messages)
I think ndd can remedy it, but if there is something I can do myself,
I'd like to know.
end of story
Gert-Jan Hagenaars
alph@win.tue.nl.