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Re: Loadlin Booting Problem



Hi Paul,

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:05:22AM -0700, Paul Kranz wrote:
> I would like help getting Loadlin to work with Linux
> 3.0 r6 which is using kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 and Windows
> 98.  Loadlin boots the vanilla version of the kernel
> 2.2.20 as expected, however it seems to have a problem
> uncompressing kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 and displays the
> following messages at bootup.

>         unocmpressing linux .....
>         invalid compression format (err=2)
>          --- system haulted

> The 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel boots fine from the boot
> floppy.  I'm using the Loadlin instructions in Chris
> Fischer's "Loadlin + Win 95/98/ME mini-HOWTO".

The debian-boot mailing list is a list for discussing the development of the
Debian installer.  The list you want for this sort of question is
debian-user.

FWIW, it might be advisable to grab a copy of Debian 3.1 instead, as 3.0r6
is no longer the current stable release.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                  to set it on, and I will move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/

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