Re: How do I pass init= to the kernel?
>
> hi ya margarete
>
> when you get linux up and running... run lilo to that
> you can use lilo instead of loadlin...
>
> to get loadlin to work...
> - make sure that your root.bin is in the right path
>
root.bin is directly in c:\
> loadlin assumes that you have a properly configured linux
> installed at root ( /dev/hda2 in your case )
>
How come then that in the installation guide
http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/install
(I think section 6.3.1)
it says that I can install debian by booting first of all with
loadlin?
I tried using a one-floppy linux destribution to fdisk the linux
partition, but fdisk wasn'tavailable on that destribution.
> if you have not installed linux yet ( into /dev/hda2 ) or any
> other root partition... loadlin will not be able tofind
> your kernel and root filesystem
>
Isn't that what the initrd=root.bin command is for?
> if you did install linux into /dev/hda2,
> put / into /dev/hda1 instead ... you might be running into
> a max 1024 cylinder problem
>
No - I only have 877 cylinders on the harddrive.
It's an old laptop, 486, 20MB of RAM, 810 MB HD and still running
DOS/win3.1.
> - why did oyu put / for linux into /dev/hda2 ???
>
I wanted to conserve my DOS files.
> - unless Windows is in /dev/hda1
> but if dos... it doesnt care that its hda1 or hda15
> but, MS windows does want to be /dev/hda1 so keep
> its partition say at 1Gb or less for Windows
>
> getting back to loadlin...
> make sure your dos binaries is in the right directory, for example:
> \dos\loadlin.exe
> \dps\root.bin
> \dos\loadling.exe
> ... specify the path in the loadlin command line
>
Everything is on c:\ - nothing is in folders.
If you wonder why I don't use a rescue disk to boot:
I get a message that the disk is not bootable.
I tried redownloading the rescue disk files, tried more than 5
different floppies, same message.
When I tried the compact version, linux booted fin, but stopped at the
kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:02
Seems somewhat weird - I don't know what to do anymore.
> c ya
> alvin
>
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Margarete Hans wrote:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Alvin Oga <aoga@Mail.Linux-Consulting.com>
> > To: Margarete Hans <whans@total.net>
> > Cc: <>; <>
> > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 8:49 PM
> > Subject: Re: How do I pass init= to the kernel?
> >
> >
> > >
> > > hi ya
> > >
> > > you probably want:
> > >
> > > boot: linux init=/bin/sh
> > >
> > > boot: linux root=/dev/hda1 -- to booth something else??
> > >
> >
> > Thing is, I am booting from a DOS partition, using loadling.exe.
> > When I use
> >
> > loadlin linux root=/dev/hda2 initrd=root.bin
> >
> > (linux being my kernel image, hda2 my unformatted linux partition)
> > I get a kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:02.
>
>
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