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- From: kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel)
- Subject: Shoelace and booting from harddrive... help?
- Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
- Message-ID: <KFOGEL.92Jul30164200@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
- Distribution: comp.os.linux
- Sender: news@ctr.columbia.edu (The Daily Lose)
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:42:00 GMT
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- To anyone who knows the answer:
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- I'm using shoelace so I can boot Linux directly from my hard
- drive... Linux is on the second partition, hda2. Shoelace is installed
- fine, and when I boot the computer, I get a menu asking which partition to
- boot from, with a little asterisk next to the "2" at the beginning of the
- second line and everything the way it's supposed to be. The problem is,
- if I actually choose 2, it can't boot. It gets all the way to the line
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- "LoadImage"
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- ... and that's it. No more, no boot, no fun...
- To boot from the Linux partition, shoelace looks for a file with
- the bootimage in a place specified by /etc/config. Mine says:
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- boot /bootimage
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- and the file /bootimage is an _exact_ copy of the boot disk that I use to
- boot Linux with the rootimage on the hard drive... i.e.: the standard dist-
- ribution boot disk, with that word modified (thanks, Norton Disk Editor) to
- cause it to look on the hard drive for the root. To put the actual bootimage
- on the hard drive for shoelace to use, I just did:
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- cat /dev/fd0 > /bootimage
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- with the boot disk still in the floppy drive.
- I think that this must not have done what I intended. Am I correct in
- deducing that it would not produce the kind of bootimage shoelace is looking
- for, and if so, what to do? What am I supposed to put in the the file
- /bootimage? I doubt the problem is with shoelace itself, as I can get to my
- DOS partition from there, and use a floppy to get to Linux at any time...
- Any ideas from Those In The Know :-?
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- --
- -Karl Fogel
- ("Leg of Lark")
- (kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu)
-
- "I'm not lost... I know exactly where I'm not!"
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