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- From: drew@ladymacb.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: Shoelace...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.073537.11482@colorado.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 07:35:37 GMT
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- In article <yiVsTB1w165w@wefunk.rent.com> ludwig@wefunk.rent.com (Mitchel F. Ludwig) writes:
- >OK... I'm getting crazy here...
- >
- >Finally got .98p1 up and running. It's way keen... I'm trying to
- >set the bad boy up to boot from my hard drive. I'm using shoelace.
- >What I do is.....
- >
- >My config file looks like :
- >
- > boot /vmlinux
- >
- >it's in /etc/config
- >
- >I run
- > laceup /dev/hda1 wini
- >
- >and then
- > laceup -w 1 /dev/hda
- >
- >Then I sync and reboot. The WINIboot menu comes up, I press 1 to
- >boot partition 1, and the machine hangs. My /vmlinux is the same
- >bootimage.98 that I use to boot from floppy, and I've changed 508/509
- >to reflect the hard drive being the place to look for root.
- >
- >What's going wrong?
-
- Sparse files. Linux, like other unices, allows you to create "holes"
- in files by lseek()'ing beyond the end of them. To save disk space,
- the GNU cp takes advantage of this, and will lseek() when it sees
- a block sized set of 0's. Under Linux, this is fine. However, Shoelace
- pukes on this.
-
- Don't use cp to write /vmlinux. Instead, use dd or cat Image > /vmlinux.
-
- Also, / must be a MINIX file system.
-
- >If no-one has any clue, what are you all using?
-
- Shoelace.
-
- You could also use LILO - it will work with any filesystem, handles
- holes, but can be difficult to use on SCSI systems, and you have
- to create maps for each kernel you wish to be able to boot.
-
- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
-