booting linux from dos prompt

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From: sikboy
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 00:00

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i trying to boot mandrake 6 (redhat 100%) from dos...

the maual told me to copy vmlinux and loadlin.exe to the root of c:

i have in my batch file as follows....

loadlin c:\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 initrd=

when its loading i get the wrong kernal version and none of my appz etc when
linux loads work.....


this is exactly what the manual told me to do???????????????

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