Re: Problems Using Loadlin to Boot Redhat 8.0

[Walter Worth <wworth prodigy net>]

On Wednesday, 1 Jan 03, David DeFrain
<defrain DeFrain net> wrote:
> I've used Loadlin to boot Redhat Linux since version
> 5.2.  I just
> installed RH 8.0, and when I run Loadlin at boot
> time it won't decompress
> the
> "vmlinuz" file, and gives me an "error no. 1"
> message.  I'm using kernal
> 2.4.18-19.8.0.  Any ideas on what to try?  Thanks in
> advance.
> 

In earlier versions and I'm not certain that this has
been extended to RH 8.0, you needed an alternative to
LILO if you can not install the Linux kernel to 
where the BIOS can reach it or you do not wish to use
it. The BIOS may not be able to reach it for one of
the following reasons: 

  The kernel is above the 1023 cylinder of the hard
drive. 
  The kernel is on a drive the BIOS cannot boot to
(not on Primary IDE or SCSI 
  chain). 
  Other esoteric kernel/BIOS problems. 

You have hardware that can only be initialized in DOS
(Plug and Play, etc). You will probably need to use
the Loadlin boot loader that is provided on the 
CD-ROM in \dosutils and will need to copy this
directory over to your DOS (Windows) hard 
drive partition and edit the autoboot.bat file to
point to its new position and 
removing the initrd= line. If your system is a SCSI
system, you will need to go into rescue mode and copy
the /mnt/boot/initrd.img from the hard drive over to 
the DOS partition, and use it for booting. :)

Walter
wworth prodigy net