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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!t-piersh
- From: t-piersh@microsoft.com (Piers Haken)
- Subject: using shoelace with SCSI?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep01.093848.22000@microsoft.com>
- Date: 01 Sep 92 09:38:48 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA 98052
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- How can I get shoelace to work with SCSI? I have sucessfully installed
- Linux (v0.97.2) on a machine with non-SCSI drives and got shoelace to
- boot it nicely etc... etc... Then I tried the same thing with a SCSI
- machine. I can get it to boot perfectly from floppy, mount the SCSI
- drives as the root and run from there. I have THAT very same bootimage
- as my /vmlinux file with the major/minor drive numbers set to 8/2 (sda2)
- repectively. I ran laceup according to the the guide (as I had done to
- the other machine) and it gave the expected results. Now, when I reboot
- the machine it gives me the familiar looking table, but when I select
- partition 2 to boot from it clears the screen, prints the Shoelace
- version message and hangs.
-
- It boots DOS from the first partition, fine.
-
- This makes me think that it's having trouble finding the second partition
- because it doesn't know the numberof heads etc... 'cos it's a SCSI disk.
-
- Any help, pleeeeeeaaase!?
- 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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