zwerin@cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Zwerin) writes:

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>The boot selector works, I can successfully boot dos.  But when I try
>to boot linux from partition /dev/hda2, it appears that it goes to the
>HD to look for the image.  Only thing is, the HD just keeps spinning
>and nothing else happens.
>
>By the way, I have the following entry in /etc/config:
>
>boot       /Image
>
>I'm not sure if I've done something wrong or what.  Any help would be
>appreciated.
>
>thanks
>andy

I had exactly this problem when I was installing Linux on my HD.
Eventually I reaslised that this was because my /Image file was
not a legitimate boot file. What I'd done was 'cp /dev/fd0 /Image'
which dutifully copied 1.2Mgs worth of raw disc into a file. The
reason for this is that there can be no concept of 'files' in this
context and you have to somehow 'encapsulate' your bootimage within
some sort of file structure. I find that 'tar'ring up the files I
want (in DOS), rawriting the whole tar file onto the floppy and then
doing 'tar -xvf /dev/fd0' works well, but you can use any archive program
that has it's internal file hierarchy within the arhchive file itself.
Of course, you're going to need DOS and Linux inter-compatible versions
of whatever you use (you can get DOS tar from archie).

Hope that's what's wrong.

Piers.

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