[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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