Jake, I can't find my loadlin stuff. It's really very easy,
though; go to Freshmeat and look for loadlin. Make a directory for it
on your Windows partition. Copy your Linux kernel to that directory
too. Then you boot to DOS and start Linux with syntax like this:
loadlin vmlinuz-2.2.14 root=/dev/hda6
replacing that last value with the location of /boot.
Really, it's brain-dead simple, I just can't find my disk ... I used
this with a small Caldera DR-DOS partition to get around a
disk-imaging problem on my gateways (Ghost didn't like Lilo!)....
-d
Jake McHenry wrote:
:
:The config would be helpful, if you don't mind. Thanks for the info. I'll
:be sure to try that.
:
:
:On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, David Talkington wrote:
:
:>
:> Hey guys, how 'bout just using loadlin? Should work right off the
:> FAT32 partition from DOS, and won't care which cylinder the Linux
:> partition starts. Set your Win to not start the GUI automatically,
:> then run loadlin from the DOS prompt. It's worked for me to get
:> around weird drive issues. I can send you my config for this if you
:> like.
:>
:> -d
:>
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:> David Talkington
:> Community Networking Initiative
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:> Jake McHenry wrote:
:>
:> :
:> :Everything your telling me is great to hear, but How can I just move the
:> :Kernel? It won't even install without me making that /boot partition at
:> :the beginning of my drive. Is there another way of installing linux that I
:> :don't know of? Thanks.
:> :
:> :jake
:> :
:> :
:> :On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
:> :
:> :> At 06:24 PM 4/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
:> :> >>
:> :> >> I just bought a new pc and I'm trying to install RD 6.1 on it, the same as
:> :> >> my servers. How can I dual boot win98 and linux without moving the entire
:> :> >> windows partition up 20 megs so the "/boot" partition from linux can be
:> :> >> created? This is the first I've messed with dual booting anything with
:> :> >> Linux. I've tried every install option in the GUI install, but each time I
:> :> >> have to put in the boot partition, and it wants it at the beginning of the
:> :> >> harddrive.
:> :> >>
:> :> >> Thanks.
:> :> >>
:> :> >> Jake McHenry
:> :> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:> :> >>
:> :> >>
:> :> >If the disk has more than 1024 cylinders or the linux partition starts
:> :> >after cylinder 1024 than you need to have a separate /boot partition of
:> :> >1 gig or so. It does not hahave to be at the beginniong of the hard
:> :> >drive ; just inside the cylinder 1024 limit.
:> :> >
:> :> >If you want you can break the windows disk space into two drives and
:> :> >put the /boot between them.
:> :> >-------------------------------------------
:> :> >Aaron Konstam
:> :> >Computer Science
:> :> >Trinity University
:> :> >715 Stadium Dr.
:> :> >San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
:> :> >
:> :> >
:> :> If all else fails, you can put the kernel on your windows partition. Just
:> :> make sure you mark it as a system file so it doesn't get moved. Or use
:> :> loadlin to boot Linux...
:> :>
:> :> Mikkel
:> :>
:> :> --
:> :> Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
:> :> for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
:> :>
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