Ian Reinhart Geiser on Sun, 1 Jun 2003 13:49:04 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Installing Linux Problems


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On Sunday 01 June 2003 12:09 pm, Art Clemons wrote:
> Ian Reinhart Geiser:
> >     When I boot into winders and use loadlin, but it seems to not want to
> > use an initrd bigger than 4mb.  I seem to remember things about this with
> > ramdisk max sizes, but lilo has not problems with the same kernel/initrd
> > (save for it cannot find root)
>
> Are you using the latest version of loadlin?  Earlier versions could
> have problems with large kernels (>990K or so).  I also played with
> linld which also usually worked.

ill try linld, since the kernel size is not the problem, its actually the 
initrd that is the problem.

Cheers
	-ian reinhart geiser
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