Re: loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels

From: Mike Galbraith (efault@gmx.de)
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 12:40:40 EST


At 12:55 PM 10/20/2002 -0400, Floydsmith@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 10/20/2002 9:03:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>efault@gmx.de writes:
>
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>>Subj:loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels
>>Date:10/20/2002 9:03:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>>From:<mailto:efault@gmx.de>efault@gmx.de
>>To:<mailto:linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>>Sent from the Internet
>>
>>
>>
>>Greetings,
>>
>>I hadn't had time to build/test kernels since 2.5.8-pre3. I now find that
>>loadlin doesn't work on my box any more. Is this a known problem? If so,
>>when did it quit working? (loadlin obsolete? other?)
>>
>>At the moment, the only way I have to boot is via floppy.
>
>
>loadlin will not work with any kernel that is 1024k or greater in size.
>There is a replacement named "linld" at:
>http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/index.html
>which help you.

Yeah, that's always been a pain, but that's not what I'm hitting (violent
reboot). I'll give linld (thanks!) a shot, but mostly, I want my dearly
beloved loadlin back ;-)

         -Mike

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