> > hi ya margarete > > when you get linux up and running... run lilo to that > you can use lilo instead of loadlin... > > to get loadlin to work... > - make sure that your root.bin is in the right path > root.bin is directly in c:\
> loadlin assumes that you have a properly configured linux > installed at root ( /dev/hda2 in your case ) > How come then that in the installation guide http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/install (I think section 6.3.1) it says that I can install debian by booting first of all with loadlin? I tried using a one-floppy linux destribution to fdisk the linux partition, but fdisk wasn'tavailable on that destribution. > if you have not installed linux yet ( into /dev/hda2 ) or any > other root partition... loadlin will not be able tofind > your kernel and root filesystem > Isn't that what the initrd=root.bin command is for? > if you did install linux into /dev/hda2, > put / into /dev/hda1 instead ... you might be running into > a max 1024 cylinder problem > No - I only have 877 cylinders on the harddrive. It's an old laptop, 486, 20MB of RAM, 810 MB HD and still running DOS/win3.1. > - why did oyu put / for linux into /dev/hda2 ??? > I wanted to conserve my DOS files. > - unless Windows is in /dev/hda1 > but if dos... it doesnt care that its hda1 or hda15 > but, MS windows does want to be /dev/hda1 so keep > its partition say at 1Gb or less for Windows > > getting back to loadlin... > make sure your dos binaries is in the right directory, for example: > \dos\loadlin.exe > \dps\root.bin > \dos\loadling.exe > ... specify the path in the loadlin command line > Everything is on c:\ - nothing is in folders. If you wonder why I don't use a rescue disk to boot: I get a message that the disk is not bootable. I tried redownloading the rescue disk files, tried more than 5 different floppies, same message. When I tried the compact version, linux booted fin, but stopped at the kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:02 Seems somewhat weird - I don't know what to do anymore. > c ya > alvin > > On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Margarete Hans wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Margarete Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <>; <> > > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 8:49 PM > > Subject: Re: How do I pass init= to the kernel? > > > > > > > > > > hi ya > > > > > > you probably want: > > > > > > boot: linux init=/bin/sh > > > > > > boot: linux root=/dev/hda1 -- to booth something else?? > > > > > > > Thing is, I am booting from a DOS partition, using loadling.exe. > > When I use > > > > loadlin linux root=/dev/hda2 initrd=root.bin > > > > (linux being my kernel image, hda2 my unformatted linux partition) > > I get a kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:02. > >
