Booting from a flashdisk

Chuck Homic (homic@wpi.edu)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:05:39 -0400 (EDT)


I'm trying to install Linux on an HP OmniBook 300. Trouble is, the OB300
doesn't have floppy or hard drives. Instead it has a number of PCMCIA
flashdisks.

How can I make a kernel boot in such a configuration? I figured since
MS-DOS seems to work quite nicely on the thing, that loadlin would be the
answer, since loadlin could take care of loading up the kernel, then I
could worry about adding support for all the bizarre hardware into the
kernel. However, when I issue the loadlin command, I get, after the
loadlin loading data:

Uncompressing Linux...

ran out of input data

-- System halted

Apparently it is unable to decompress itself from the flash disk? And
loadlin won't load an uncompressed kernel image. So, any ideas?

-Chuck

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