Re: kernel booting

Bill Cunningham <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in part:
Ok I booted from lilo. No problem. Everything booted great. Then
I tried to boot from win98se DOS mode using loadlin and the
kernel image I copied into windows and it failed to boot. The
problem must be loadlin.exe has there been an alternative or
updates to loadlin since RH 7 ? That's my problem.

MS-Win98se DOS box won't work. You have to shutdown to DOS.
And I'm not 100% certain LOADLIN.EXE still works on the latest
or bloated kernels. Changes were made, and the kernel now
no longer boots when cat'd to a floppy.

I don't like Fedora. I have a AMD x64 and it won't work
at all. So I use my RH 7 and 9 With my i686. 32 bit cpu. I
would like to get a 64 bit version of linux. Maybe debian
or suse will work.

I've tried Debian AMD64, and it works. Since I cannot abide
SysV /etc/rc.d mess'o'symlinks, I stick with Slackware and
it's off-shoot slamd64.

-- Robert




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