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Article #266Re: Boot disks
From: Bob Thompson
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 00:00
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Can you mount your windows partition, copy the kernel to a directory there, and use loadlin to boot? Bob (Perth Australia).... Alex McCreath wrote: > I'm currently booting into MDK7.0 from a floppy as I've installed a UDMA66 > drive (on a promise PCI card) for the primary drive (windoze) and currently > have two chances in hell of getting Linux to *easily* boot of that drive. > Now, I've compiled my own kernel but cannot figure out how to get the boot > disk (using mkbootdisk) to accept the bzImage file so that I can boot of > *my* kernel. It appears to only allow you to boot of the currently > configured kernel proper, ie if you have 2.2.14 installed, then that is all > you can boot off. Can someone point me in the right direction please. > > Regards > > Alex McCreath > (Brisbane, Australia) -- Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin
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