[PLUG] Boot slackware 13 using loadlin...
Michael Robinson
plug_1 at robinson-west.com
Sat Dec 5 06:09:46 UTC 2009
Has anyone gotten this to work?
I have a serial ATA drive I wasn't using, so I decided
to install freedos 1.0 in the first 500 megs and use
the rest of the drive to install Slackware 13. I was
lazy, I told setup to install everything. Obviously,
I didn't set lilo up because I intend to use loadlin.
Which kernel exactly do I need from the /boot directory
on my slackware partition? I am not running an smp box.
I see generic and I see huge.
The problem I'm running into is that loadlin fires up and
the kernel decompresses followed by the system resetting
and booting back into freedos. I installed freedos with
just the base group plus gem. Do I need to use the load
without drivers option in freedos or do I need himem and
emm386?
What I'm after is seeing how Slackware 13 works before I
go and try to squeeze it onto a 4 gig scsi hard drive
replacing Slackware 10.1. I need to make sure that the
Realtek 8180L pci card on that box will work among other
things.
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