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Hi,

I have a few questions about loadlin.

1. How does one copy (i.e. cp, dd, rawrite, ??) the linux kernel to the dos partition
for use with loadlin?

2. Where typically is the kernel and what is it usually called?  I've seen vmlinux,
vmlinuz, zImage, and bzImage.

3. How would one invoke loadlin?  For example, loadlin (options ???).

Thanks in advance,

Wilford Stevenson

mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt should mount your msdos partition under
your /mnt directory, now it's part of your file system (sort of).

Now you can copy it with cp without any changes, just cp /vmlinuz
/mnt/vmlinuz

Quote:> 2. Where typically is the kernel and what is it usually called?  I've seen vmlinux,
> vmlinuz, zImage, and bzImage.

Quote:> 3. How would one invoke loadlin?  For example, loadlin (options ???).

"Daddy, what does <formatting drive c mean?>" ...

:Hi,
:
:I have a few questions about loadlin.
:
:1. How does one copy (i.e. cp, dd, rawrite, ??) the linux kernel to the dos partition
:for use with loadlin?

Mount the DOS partition and use cp.
For example, I have my first DOS partition (/dev/hda1) mounted on /dosc,
and all the loadlin stuff is in the DOS directory c:\loadlin.  After
compiling a kernel, I just use 'cp zImage /dosc/loadlin/zimage'.

:
:2. Where typically is the kernel and what is it usually called?  I've seen vmlinux,
:vmlinuz, zImage, and bzImage.
:

As you can see from above, I am using zimage.

:3. How would one invoke loadlin?  For example, loadlin (options ???).
:

Loadlin has good documentation.  In my case, all that is needed is
loadlin zimage ro

:Thanks in advance,
:
:Wilford Stevenson

[about the kernel]

Quote:>mine is /vmlinuz, I'm using slackware 3 and it's a 1.2.13 kernel, not
>compressed (at least I don't rememeber compressing it :)

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