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Article #55513Re: Problems with loadlin
From: Michael James
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 00:00
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Col Mackrory wrote: > > Hello, > > I am using Slackware 96 - 2.0.27 kernel. I use a UMSDOS setup. > > I have installed the system and can boot off a floppy OK and can run Linux > OK using my UMSDOS file system. I re-compiled my kernel to suit my system. > If I do a zdisk I can boot OK off a floppy using the new kernel. > > I have a problem when I use Loadlin.exe - I get a message stating "file is > not an image" My command line is > > d:\loadlin\loadlin.exe d:\linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 rw > > If I compile the kernel with make zdisk - I get a 1.44 that loads OK. If I > do a make zImage I get a new kernel as vmlinuz in the / directory. I have > tried copying vmlinuz to a DOS directory (i.e. d:\loadlin) and I get the > same error > > What am I doing wrong? > > Advice please, > Col. make zImage should not update files in / the new kernel image should be in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage i use loadlin without problems but i dont use UMSDOS -- "Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?"
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,d90d5efecba458bd X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: Michael James <q9722124@mail.connect.usq.edu.au> Subject: Re: Problems with loadlin Date: 1997/06/01 Message-ID: <339145C1.86BE2194@mail.connect.usq.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 245381786 References: <01bc6dc8$0681fc00$LocalHost@colshome> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Organization: USQconnect News Server Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux