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- From: ilan@hal.cs.huji.ac.il (Ilan Horn)
- Subject: Re: Can't get 0.97pl3 to boot
- Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
- Date: 8 Sep 92 12:41:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <5557@shum.huji.ac.il>
- References: <715841111snx@temple.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk> <1992Sep7.081220.22423@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- In article <1992Sep7.081220.22423@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
- |> In article <715841111snx@temple.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk> pdc@temple.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk (Piers Cawley) writes:
- |> >
- |> >But: I just pulled the new 0.97pl3 sources down from nic.funet.fi, hacked
- |> >keyboard.c so that # and @ are in the right place and compiled. Thus far, no
- |> >problems. However, when I copied /usr/src/linux/Image to /etc, did the rdev
- |> >incantation over it and rebooted, I got the following message:
- |> [ deleted ]
- |>
- |> I'd be much happier if people using shoelace would try booting from a
- |> floppy (or using lilo) - right now I always suspect a problem with
- |> shoelace when I see these kinds of messages. Shoelace isn't supposed to
- |> be used any more: please get lilo instead.
- |>
- |> Shoelace has several problems:
- |> - it doesn't handle holes in the Image file gracefully
- |> - nobody seems to remember if there are any limits to the size shoelace
- |> can load.
- |> - shoelace cannot handle anything else but the minix fs.
- |>
- |> So please try booting from a floppy, and resubmit the problem-report if
- |> it still won't work.
- |>
- |> Linus
-
- I had the same problem, and I'm not using shoelace (and neither lilo come to that). I just
- created a bootable diskette....
-
- Ilan
-