Re: loadlin bugreport
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> I can't reproduce this myself due to lack of machines with windows,
> so I didn't want to file a bugreport.
No windows machine handy either, but I do have an empty 2 gig
drive and installed DOS 5.0 on it for this.
>
> 1. copy linux, loadlin.exe and root.bin (from the images-1.22
> directory since it's impossible to copy an 1.44Mb image to a disk)
> to a DOS partition
I used the image-1.44 root.bin from compact, recompressed it and
found "trailing garbage" had artificially inflated the file.
At 950K, it fit on a 3.5 DOS floppy.
> 2. Boot the machine in DOS
>
> 3. Run loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin filesize=1.22
loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin ro
Worked fine, although I didn't give it much of a test other than
to see the welcome screen (rescue 2.2.16) and complete a few options.
I already have a very nice potato installed via ethernet connection.
Beautiful job guys. :) But can we somehow lose the floppy device
messages that appear on the screen? (2.2.17-compact)
Also, the beer swilling penguin.. As soon as portmap loads, he loses
his colors and I'm stuck with a poor picture of him. Cirrus CL-GD542x
VLB on the video. Help!
Anyway, the loadlin method worked after I recompressed the image.
> This gives you: Can't find a valid ramdisk
>
> Writing root.bin to a floppy directly doesn't work since loadlin
> doesn't support initrd=/dev/fd0 .
>
> Booting the machine from floppy doesn't work for some reason, so
> we're somewhat stuck now :(
>
> Wichert.
>
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