Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

[Howard Eisenberger <howarde@gmx.net>]

On 2012-06-16, Mike McClain wrote:

>     I'm accustomed to running loadlin to launch different versions
> of Linux from dos and it's worked dependably for me for many years.
> I installed a copy of squeeze yesterday on a partition, copied the
> kernel and initrd to C: and tried to boot into squeeze but it just
> resets the computer. It's a P3 system w/ Intel mobo and 512MB ram.
> I've used both these commands with the same result:
>     loadlin vmlinuz.d60 root=/dev/sdb5 rw
>     loadlin vmlinuz.d60 root=/dev/sdb5 rw init=initrd.d60
>
>     Is there some reason the squeeze kernel won't run from loadlin
> or is it the more likely scenario that I've goofed up somewhere?

At some point I stopped using loadlin and switched to gujin.
I think that current kernels may be too big for loadlin. I
just used FreeDOS and gujin (tiny.exe) to install wheezy on
an old laptop with no CD drive.

http://gujin.sourceforge.net/

Regards,

Howard E.