I am running a 750 mhz PIII with 2 hd's and 2 cdroms, no scsi, 384k of
ram. I currently run win98 and Redhat 7.3. I am using loadlin as a
bootloader.
I installed Slackware 9.0 on a new partition (/dev/hdd9) and everything
went fine. The install procedure made a bootdisk for me. When booting
from the floppy everything starts up fine. However, when trying to boot
using loadlin c:\svmlinuz root=/dev/hdd9 ro, I get the error:
ran out of input data

--System halted
This doesn't happen when I boot using Redhat which uses the command
loadlin c:\vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd2 ro.

Anyways, I'm stumped as to why it will boot from floppy but not from the
hard drive. All discussion on the topic that I can find on the internet
is related to Lilo but I don't use it.

Thanks,
Zach

p.s. I tried copying my kernel on /dev/hdd9 to the c: drive, I tried
copying from the boot floppy to the c: drive, and I tried copying my
kernel from the /dev/hdd9 location to a floppy to the c: drive just to
see if it was an incompatible filesystem thing.