... I got everything working but now >|> shoelace doesn't boot my Linux partition ... thing is it possible to remove shoelace >|> once it is installed? I have ... have a map file created. So, shoelace is more convienient. -- Boycott USL/ ...

linux-activists - Drew Eckhardt - Feb 26 1993 - 15:29

... prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Coleman) writes: > Will Shoelace worry about being used on an ... what I want to do. > Unfortunately, Shoelace does nothing but churn the drive ... cause problems? > Thanks.. Yes it will. Shoelace requires its partition to start on a ...

linux-activists - H. Peter Anvin N9ITP - Jun 29 1992 - 14:40

... I got everything working but now |> shoelace doesn't boot my Linux partition ... is it possible to remove shoelace |> once it is installed? I ... now have 2 dos partitions, but shoelace |> is still there and I ... use LILO 0.8 pl 1. Shoelace is dated. H.J. ...

linux-activists - H.J. Lu - Feb 25 1993 - 19:57

... .edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes: : So, shoelace is more convienient. Yes! And no ... of gnu cp. Had to report shoelace ;-). Actually finding a proper a. ... my disks with lilo ;-( .. now using shoelace & Linux 0.99.5 on ...

linux-activists - Ari Lemmke - Mar 4 1993 - 22:09

nhc@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (n.h.chandler) writes: >Where is the source for Shoelace located? >Neville Chandler >nhc@mtdcc.att.com Shoelace is originally designed for Minix. So have a look in the Minix directory of your FTP site.

linux-activists - Joerg Pommnitz - Apr 30 1992 - 07:45

... (in other words >the machine hangs). I tried to reinstall shoelace again and again but with >no change in result. Has ... >Thanks in advance! >Wolfgang Probably you haven't installed shoelace in your boot partition block. In other words do 'laceup ...

linux-activists - Carl-Michael Skoog - Jul 30 1992 - 12:06

... Al Petrofsky) writes: >>I've discovered that shoelace will only work on partitions that start ... have a virgin boot sector, so you're okay if you want to remove it. ... 3) It's just safer than shoelace. Just my $.02 worth...;) -Ken Ken == ...

linux-activists - Ken Corey - Operator - Jun 8 1992 - 21:00

... Al Petrofsky) writes: >>>I've discovered that shoelace will only work on partitions that start ... have a virgin boot sector, so you're okay if you want > to remove it ... > 3) It's just safer than shoelace. > >Just my $.02 worth...;) > >-Ken > > ...

linux-activists - Al Clark - Jun 9 1992 - 23:25

In order to use shoelace under linux, someone will have to compile laceup.c. If someone does this, I will post the other components that have been compiled under minix. A more reasonable method would be to just adapt that portion that selects the menu ...

linux-activists - Peter MacDonald - Jan 1 1992 - 02:36

... , and I must >say, it's sure come a long way. Kudos to everyone involved! >menu. [...] > >I've tried to install shoelace, but it doesn't know about Linux SCSI >device numbers. Well, this was due to my own foolishness. I modified the image on my ...

linux-activists - David Giller - May 23 1992 - 04:00

In article al@imdvlf.acuson.com (Al Petrofsky) writes: >I've discovered that shoelace will only work on partitions that start >on a cylinder boundary. I don't remember seeing this in the docs. >After I repartitioned ...

linux-activists - Dan Miner - Jun 8 1992 - 19:55

... the same machine, >>reinstalled it because I wanted to change some partitionsa on my harddisk). How did you change the partitions? Shoelace can only boot partitions that start at a cylinder boundary. I used to have the exact same symptoms as you ...

linux-activists - Claude Morin - Aug 6 1992 - 20:20

Oops, stupid me. I accidentally wrote out the unpatched version of the kernel to the tar file -- i.e., it was looking for the root filesystem on the floppy disk. Sorry for the stupid question. I might add that I now have GCC 2.1, VI, Kermit, tcsh,

linux-activists - Todd Radel - Apr 8 1992 - 12:29

I wrote: >I did the test-laceup on a floppy and booted from that. The WiniBoot >menu came up just fine, and displayed my correct partition table, but >after the prompt timed out, the floppy went nuts: it said "Non-System >Disk or Disk Error" with

linux-activists - Ben Cox - May 31 1992 - 16:06

In article <5200@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> dminer@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Dan Miner) writes: Now, how do you calc these boundaries? Would fdisk be fine, since does things by cylinders? Linux fdisk should tell you the # of heads and # of sectors per

linux-activists - Al Petrofsky - Jun 9 1992 - 14:08

davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes: > In article <5F28NB5w165w@ssg.com>, unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) writes: > > | ------------------------------------ > | Customizing the Linux boot process > |

linux-activists - Rick Emerson - Jul 21 1992 - 17:10

In article , unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) writes: | > I thank you for the useful info, but... DOS? To quote my youngest, | > "Yuckie-poo!" I am going home tonight and try a quick port of bpe to | > linux. If it works I'll

linux-activists - william E Davidsen - Jul 22 1992 - 10:02

Sounds like your root linux partition does not start on a cylinder boundary. You should try other things before assuming this is the problem, since fixing it requires messing with the partition table. If you try to fix your partitions, don't forget to

linux-activists - Claude Morin - Aug 26 1992 - 14:51

... 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' ...

linux-activists - Piers Haken - Aug 25 1992 - 08:11