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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: Re: Help w Shoelace and 2 drives
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.001916.22777@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <9207201323.AA11496@optical.bms.com> <1mw8NB1w165w@ssg.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:19:16 GMT
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- In article <1mw8NB1w165w@ssg.com> unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) writes:
- > Sorry. As far I understand, you MS-DOS partition a) has to be on the root
- > device (/dev/hda)
-
- MS-DOS will probably feel unhappy on a second disk, although it should
- be possible to fix this with a few hacks (trap INT 0x13, switch the
- device numbers, etc.).
-
- > and b) has to / should be (translation: some room for
- > ambiguity on this point) the first partition.
-
- I have PC-DOS 4.0 (soon to become MS-DOS 3.3 or an EXT FS) on /dev/hda2
- and it seems to feel (and boot) fine.
-
- > I was unable to put Linux in /dev/hda1 and boot from it. Put it in
- > /dev/hda2 and it works quite well.
-
- I've had it boot with root on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 and the boot
- sector on /dev/hda, /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2. Although most of this was
- done with LILO, Shoelace should be able to do this as well.
-
- > The near-mythical LILO boot tool (rumors have it able to leap tall
- > partitions at a single bound, etc.) may help with this.
-
- Certainly ;-)
-
- > It's around in alpha testing form (I don't know where to get it);
- > if you're feeling brave, you can give this a try.
-
- I've posted the announcement just a few minutes ago, but repetition
- never hurts ... banjo.concert.net:/pub/Linux/Incoming/lilo.2.tar.Z
-
- - Werner
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