Bill Marcum wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:27:22 +0000, Zachary Barrow
> <yakuza465@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>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.


It turns out that my version of loadlin doesn't deal with kernels over
1mb. My RH 7.3 kernel was .98mb, and the slackware one is 1.1mb. I
have loadlin 1.6c which is supposed to work, but doesn't.


>>
>>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.
>>
>>
> If you are using the loadlin from Redhat 7.3, you might need a newer
> version.
>

I ended up getting this bootloader called linld which works better. If
I boot from my startup menu, it goes absolutely nuts, with weird screen
stuff and never ends up loading. However, if I just exit to a command
prompt, and type in the same command as I have in the batch file that
should go from my startup menu, the whole thing loads great. Thanks for
the info on finding a newer version of loadlin/a new bootloader.

Zach


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