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Re: [PLUG] Help installing to VAIO SuperSlim...
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On my SuSE install it's just initrd by default. About 420k. I have a
bunch of different names for them, things like initrd.bzImage, but
nothing with a '.gz' extension.
It looks like the loadlin line should look something like:
C:\LOADLIN> LOADLIN bzimage initrd=diskimage
where bzimage is your kernel (zimage)
and diskimage is your initrd file name
I'm going by what I find here:
http://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/~lermen/manual.txt
Kev
William Shank wrote:
>
> i tried that, but it doesn't seem to work. the file is supposed to be
> initrd, initrd.img, or initrd.gz?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Brosius
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Sent: 10/19/01 1:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Help installing to VAIO SuperSlim...
>
> Well, loadlin needs either a ramdisk image (initrd) or an installed
> partition to boot (from the little bit I just read). It looks like all
> you've got so far is a kernel. You may be able to copy the initrd off
> the boot cd from SuSE, then use it.
>
> Kevin
>
> William Shank wrote:
> >
> > oh yeah, these are the files in C:\loadlin
> >
> > LINUX.BAT
> > LINUX.PAR
> > loadlin.exe
> > SUSESAVE.MNU
> > zimage
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > -chris
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Jonas
> > To: 'plug@lists.phillylinux.org'
> > Sent: 10/19/01 12:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Help installing to VAIO SuperSlim...
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:36:37AM -0400, William Shank wrote:
> > > can anyone help me out here? i usually install from boot disk/cdrom,
> > so this
> > > is foreign to me.
> >
> > Since the CD-ROM works in Linux (on another machine), perhaps you
> should
> > try using a floppy disk to boot from. (Look on your distribution's CD
> > for their floppy disk images and use rawrite.exe to put it on a
> floppy.)
> > This would allow you to get the system up and going and then you might
> > be able to mount the CD-ROM and proceed with your install.
> >
> > If that doesn't work, can you post details on what you're trying with
> > loadlin? ie, how you're invoking it (From the command line or with a
> > batch file? If with a batch file, what are the contents of it?), what
> > other files you have alongside loadlin.exe and your kernel image, that
> > sort of thing.
> >
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