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From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Shoelace problem
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Date: 20 Oct 90 11:00:38 GMT
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I am attempting to get Shoelace up and running, and am having a slight
problem.  Perhaps someone can give me a suggestion as to what I am doing
wrong.

This is Shoelace with standard Minix 1.5.10 (the ultimate goal is to use
it with Bruce's Minix-386, but I figured that I had better get it working
with standard Minix first).

Everything compiles ok, and I have a bootable floppy disk.  On the floppy,
I have /shoelace, /etc/config, and the other necessary files.  I also have
/etc/kernel, /etc/fs, /etc/mm and /etc/init, as well as a copy of the Minix
kernel image (which is called /etc/minix as per the config file).  The
kernel image was made the usual way in /usr/src/tools, and the individual
files of kernel, fs, mm and init were used (along with the other stuff) to
make the image, using build.

Therefore, to summarize, I have kernel, fs, mm and init on the floppy and
also the kernel image made from them.

When I boot the floppy, Shoelace comes up, and after doing its initialization
thing, complains that "Text+Data+Symbols does not match file length" for
the kernel file.  It then proceeds to load image file (and everything runs
fine).

However, what I REALLY want it to do is to load from the kernel, mm, fs and
init files, rather than from the image file.  I presume the fact that it does
not is tied to the complaining message.  But of course kernel is ok, since
it is used to make the image, which works like it is supposed to do.

I know I'm overlooking something simple, but don't see it.  Help!

John Nall
nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu
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John W. Nall		| Supercomputation Computations Research Institute
nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu  | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
 "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." - Larry Wall