On 2012-06-16, Mike McClain wrote: > I'm accustomed to running loadlin to launch different versions > of Linux from dos and it's worked dependably for me for many years. > I installed a copy of squeeze yesterday on a partition, copied the > kernel and initrd to C: and tried to boot into squeeze but it just > resets the computer. It's a P3 system w/ Intel mobo and 512MB ram. > I've used both these commands with the same result: > loadlin vmlinuz.d60 root=/dev/sdb5 rw > loadlin vmlinuz.d60 root=/dev/sdb5 rw init=initrd.d60 > > Is there some reason the squeeze kernel won't run from loadlin > or is it the more likely scenario that I've goofed up somewhere?
At some point I stopped using loadlin and switched to gujin. I think that current kernels may be too big for loadlin. I just used FreeDOS and gujin (tiny.exe) to install wheezy on an old laptop with no CD drive. http://gujin.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/a450blf4k...@mid.individual.net
