Re: Loadlin question
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:31:57AM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
| Hey,
|
| I just finished dual-booting my computer here at work, and I want to be able
| to use Linux. I was wondering, though, how do I get a kernel image onto the
| dos partition? Do I just copy the /vmlinuz file to a vfat partition?
That may or may not work. I did that with a previous machine I had
with Win98 and RedHat and it worked fine. I tried doing that with the
Debian kernel when I was triple-booting the machine, but the kernel
got corrupted. While I was trying to figure out why loadlin wouldn't
boot with the debian kernel (but would boot debian with the RH kernel)
I learned about rsync. I then used rsync to "copy" the kernel to C:\
and it worked fine.
Just out of curiosity, why are you using loadlin.exe instead of the
more common lilo? On that box I mentioned above LILO couldn't boot
from /dev/hdc where Linux (RH) was installed. After I learned about
grub I tried it and it had no trouble (with Debian, RH was gone by
that time, but it was the same hard disk).
I highly recommend GRUB. I think it is much better than starting DOS,
and using config.sys to jumpstart Linux.
-D
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