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Re: Loadlin and new kernels



On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 08:17:43PM -0400, Jayson Baird wrote:
> When using loadlin to boot from dos into Linux, it requires the command line 
> 
> loadlin linux /hda2
> 
> whereas linux is the kernel I keep in a local directory. If I compile a new
> kernel, is there anyway to get that new kernel on disk to copy over to the
> dos local directory to use loadlin? Any help you can give, I would be
> greatly appreciated. Thanks :)

Assuming you use make-kpkg to compile your new kernel (the Debian way),
it will be in /boot/vmlinuz-<version>.  Just mount the dos partition and
cp that file from /boot to your dos partition as "linux". 

Bob

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