Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!amail.amdahl.COM!sid.boyce From: sid.boyce@amail.amdahl.COM Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Shoelace devices +(HD6 boot?) Message-ID: Date: 3 Jan 91 01:54:59 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 33 X-Unparsable-Date: Wednesday, 2 January 1991 16:51 PT Everything boots up fine, except that I get error messages after telling shoelace which partition to boot. /dev/fd0 not found - guessing major and minor device numbers /dev/at0 not found - ditto /dev/hdx not found - ditto Followed by .......................... /dev/fd0 = 256 /dev/at0 = 256 /dev/hd2 = 256 etc., etc. I have used setdev bootdev /dev/hd2 and setdev rootdev /dev/hd3, I have also played around with setdev /dev/hd2 3,2 and setdev /dev/hd2 device 3, minor 2 etc. etc. I have on my system drive A = 1.2M drive B=1.44M C=HD0 1-DOS 2-root,3-/usr, 2nd hard drive has 3 Minix partitions. The shoelace doc is not so clear on what should be there. However, everything works fine, but it would be nice to banish these messages. **** Now to the topic of the second hard disk****** Earl in an article confirmed that you should boot from fd1 and laceup hd5. The only systems me or my colleagues know to allow this is the Zenith, by pressing "esc" just before boot to go into MONITOR and type b1 to boot from floppy 1. It seems that the BIOS is designed to try first floppy 0 and then hard drive 0 and stops if does not find a bootable system on either. Can it be done? I was hoping eventually to use the first hard disk for DOS only and the second for Minix only. ********386 + 1.5.10 ******** Regards Sid....G3VBV. ***** Amdahl (UK) Tech. Ops. Group ******