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- From: jhelberg@nl.oracle.com (Joost Helberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: using shoelace with SCSI?
- Message-ID: <2807@nlsun1.oracle.nl>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 07:30:59 GMT
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- t-piersh@microsoft.com (Piers Haken) writes:
- : 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!?
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- Please use LILO before other problems come up.
- LILO is more general purpose and better for SCSI.
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