On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:31:57AM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: | Hey, | | I just finished dual-booting my computer here at work, and I want to be able | to use Linux. I was wondering, though, how do I get a kernel image onto the | dos partition? Do I just copy the /vmlinuz file to a vfat partition?
That may or may not work. I did that with a previous machine I had with Win98 and RedHat and it worked fine. I tried doing that with the Debian kernel when I was triple-booting the machine, but the kernel got corrupted. While I was trying to figure out why loadlin wouldn't boot with the debian kernel (but would boot debian with the RH kernel) I learned about rsync. I then used rsync to "copy" the kernel to C:\ and it worked fine. Just out of curiosity, why are you using loadlin.exe instead of the more common lilo? On that box I mentioned above LILO couldn't boot from /dev/hdc where Linux (RH) was installed. After I learned about grub I tried it and it had no trouble (with Debian, RH was gone by that time, but it was the same hard disk). I highly recommend GRUB. I think it is much better than starting DOS, and using config.sys to jumpstart Linux. -D
