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- From: alph@wsinfo02.win.tue.nl (G.J.W. Hagenaars)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: trouble booting (dos) [hum]
- Summary: story
- Keywords: shoelace, winiboot, reboot, reboot, reboot
- Message-ID: <4071@svin09.info.win.tue.nl>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 10:19:13 GMT
- Sender: news@svin09.info.win.tue.nl
- Reply-To: alph@win.tue.nl
- Lines: 51
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- Well, this is a story, so only read this if you have the time.
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- Yesterday (sunday), i started installing Linux using the SLS package.
- At first I had some trouble booting, but maybe that was a faulty disk,
- because when I rerawrote it it worked fine.
- Very good; booting works, now installing with the utilities disk.
- I got a
- magic match failed
- magic match failed
- [MS-DOS FS Rel. alpha.5, FAT 12, check=n, conv=b]
- [me=0xf0, cs=1, #f=2, fs=1, fl=9, ds=19, de=224, data=33, se=2880, ts=0]
- No bmap support
- installing base...Drive 0 is write protected
- floppy I/O error
- dev 021c, sector 18
- done
-
- But never mind, it worked.
- Installing the rest (minimal base system): easy. Very good.
-
- Moving on to getting Linux to boot from HD. i.e. install Shoelace and
- Winiboot.
-
- Reading /etc/README.shoelac I followed the instructions and tried out
- some different combinations to get all the stuff in the right place
- (meanwhile rebooting a couple of times --want a number? ok, > 25 --)
- After a couple of hours everything was in the right place (including
- some other software I installed along the way).
- So I made a laceup to fd0H1440 rebooted, and Linux booted (like a
- dream)
-
- Fine, laceup to my hd, reboot partition 2, (Linux). It worked.
-
- reboot partition 1, (Dos) pfrt.
-
- Hey, what?
- My Dos is dead!
- reboot Linux, mdir c:
- non-MSDOS?!?!?!?!?
- mdir d:, mdir e:, mdir f: (all in an extended partition) works fine
- reboot DOS from a floppy, c:
- pfew, I can still access c: (if I ignore the, 'FAT bad' messages)
-
- I think ndd can remedy it, but if there is something I can do myself,
- I'd like to know.
-
- end of story
-
- Gert-Jan Hagenaars
- alph@win.tue.nl.
-