From: ilan@hal.cs.huji.ac.il (Ilan Horn) Subject: Re: Can't get 0.97pl3 to boot Date: 8 Sep 1992 12:41:58 GMT
In article <1992Sep7.081220.22423@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
|> In article <715841111snx@temple.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk> pdc@temple.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk (Piers Cawley) writes:
|> >
|> >But: I just pulled the new 0.97pl3 sources down from nic.funet.fi, hacked
|> >keyboard.c so that # and @ are in the right place and compiled. Thus far, no
|> >problems. However, when I copied /usr/src/linux/Image to /etc, did the rdev
|> >incantation over it and rebooted, I got the following message:
|> [ deleted ]
|>
|> I'd be much happier if people using shoelace would try booting from a
|> floppy (or using lilo) - right now I always suspect a problem with
|> shoelace when I see these kinds of messages. Shoelace isn't supposed to
|> be used any more: please get lilo instead.
|>
|> Shoelace has several problems:
|> - it doesn't handle holes in the Image file gracefully
|> - nobody seems to remember if there are any limits to the size shoelace
|> can load.
|> - shoelace cannot handle anything else but the minix fs.
|>
|> So please try booting from a floppy, and resubmit the problem-report if
|> it still won't work.
|>
|> Linus
I had the same problem, and I'm not using shoelace (and neither lilo come to that). I just
created a bootable diskette....
Ilan