Re: Problems Using Loadlin to Boot Redhat 8.0

[David DeFrain <defrain DeFrain net>]

I've had a Loadlin dual-boot setup going for years.  With RH8, however,
when I copy the new compressed kernal "vmlinuz" to my DOS partition and
attempt to boot into Linux with Loadlin, I get the following message:

Uncompressing Linux...
Invalid compressed format (err=1)
--System halted

It just stopped working with RH8.  Lilo has never worked on this machine
(LI____ results, or a blizzard of 00 & 01's).  Something is different
about this compressed kernal that Loadlin doesn't like.  Does anyone
have an idea for me?  Thanks in advance.

 
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 15:15, Walter Worth wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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