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 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.
> 

>From research that I have conducted on Bugzilla,
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/, Bug # 70653 (RH
7.3) & Bug #75311 (RH 8.0) document issues with
loadlin. In the case of RH 8.0, it recommends updating
loadlin. :)

Walter
wworth prodigy net