Shoelace won't boot on my system

[Gregory Larkin]

Hi there,

I've beaten this question to a pulp, I know (apologies to
Earl :)

I was playing around with shoelace last night, trying to get
it to boot from a floppy that was laced up with "laceup -w 1 /dev/fd0"

I make a filesystem on /dev/hd2, "mkfs /dev/hd2 12885". The partition
starts on sector 15912 now. If I use de to look at the first block
(1024 byte chunk) of the partition, it is all zeroes. Looking at the
source of mkfs, I confirmed that mkfs put it there. Does shoelace
expect the first sector to contain the super block and not all zeroes?
I tried to increment the start sector of the partition past the zeroes,
but that only resulted in a trashed filesystem. DOS is in the first
partition and shoelace will boot that fine.

When I get the "Boot:" prompt and I press "2" for the Minix partition,
the disk light goes on briefly and then the system hangs. I have
copied the shoelace executable into the / directory on /dev/hd2 and
config is in the /etc directory. Is this all I need?

I must be missing something very elemental here. Someone with a
successfully "shoelaced" system, if you could send me a dump of
your partition table, that would be great.

Thanks,

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Greg Larkin (Viewplace Engineer)
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