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- From: t-piersh@microsoft.com (Piers Haken)
- Subject: Re: Shoelace
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.121150.172@microsoft.com>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 12:11:50 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA 98052
- References: <1992Aug24.164051.27926@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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- zwerin@cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Zwerin) writes:
-
- [....]
- >
- >The boot selector works, I can successfully boot dos. But when I try
- >to boot linux from partition /dev/hda2, it appears that it goes to the
- >HD to look for the image. Only thing is, the HD just keeps spinning
- >and nothing else happens.
- >
- >By the way, I have the following entry in /etc/config:
- >
- >boot /Image
- >
- >I'm not sure if I've done something wrong or what. Any help would be
- >appreciated.
- >
- >thanks
- >andy
-
- I had exactly this problem when I was installing Linux on my HD.
- Eventually I reaslised that this was because my /Image file was
- not a legitimate boot file. What I'd done was 'cp /dev/fd0 /Image'
- which dutifully copied 1.2Mgs worth of raw disc into a file. The
- reason for this is that there can be no concept of 'files' in this
- context and you have to somehow 'encapsulate' your bootimage within
- some sort of file structure. I find that 'tar'ring up the files I
- want (in DOS), rawriting the whole tar file onto the floppy and then
- doing 'tar -xvf /dev/fd0' works well, but you can use any archive program
- that has it's internal file hierarchy within the arhchive file itself.
- Of course, you're going to need DOS and Linux inter-compatible versions
- of whatever you use (you can get DOS tar from archie).
-
- Hope that's what's wrong.
-
- Piers.
-
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- Disclaimer: These views are my own and not necessarily
- those of the company for which I work.
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